Béatrice Laurent (ed.), Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain, Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth

Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain is a remarkable collection of articles which uses the interdisciplinary approach to examine a whole network of correspondences between the arts, literature and science, thus conjuring up a new powerful picture of Victorian culture and its tensions over the last...

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Published inMiranda Vol. 11; no. 11
Main Author Lambert-Charbonnier, Martine
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 07.06.2015
Laboratoire CAS (Cultures anglo-saxonnes)
Subjects
fairy tales
Humanities and Social Sciences
interdisciplinary approach
Neoclassicism
Symbolism
the Pre-Raphaelites
The Sleeping Beauty
Symbolisme
the Pre-Raphaelites
Symbolism
contes de fées
interdisciplinary approach
Préraphaélites
The Sleeping Beauty
fairy tales
Neoclassicism
Néo-classicisme
approche interdisciplinaire
La Belle au Bois Dormant
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Summary:Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain is a remarkable collection of articles which uses the interdisciplinary approach to examine a whole network of correspondences between the arts, literature and science, thus conjuring up a new powerful picture of Victorian culture and its tensions over the last three decades of the 19th century. In her article “The Strange Case of the Victorian Sleeping Maid”, Béatrice Laurent, who edited the collection, describes the motif of the Sleeping Beauty as “a c...
ISSN:2108-6559
2108-6559
DOI:10.4000/miranda.7330