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Victorian Visual Culture

Gender, Sexuality, and Victorian Visual Culture

Examines how nineteenth-century British artists, critics, collectors, and general audiences both responded to and had an impact on changing conventions and representations of gender and sexuality during the period. Students will become acquainted with various styles and movements in British art, such a s Pre-Raphaelitism. Topics include: the effects of nineteenth-century feminism on the visual arts, the role of women artists and critics in Victorian art institutions such as the Royal Academy, the representation of transgressive sexualities, gender, and urban space, and the relationship between female literary characters and Victorian women.

BART: GenEd-Breadth/Arts, BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, EMAH: Major-Art History Elective, EMWO: Major-Women's/Gender Elective, ENAH: Minor-Art History Elective, ENWO: Minor-Women's/Gender Elective, PPD: GenEd-Power/Privilege/Diff, MWOM: Major-Women's and Gender Stud, NWOM: Minor-Women's and Gender Stud