Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art
Munich, Adrienne Auslander
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Paperback
238 pages
31 Photographs, Bibliography, Index
Published: 1993
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN / EAN: 0231068735
This study explores the passion with which Victorian male writers and artists gave meaning to the myth of Perseus and Andromeda and its medieval analogue, the legend of St George and the dragon. It demonstrates how men used the myth to exert their own ge