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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 have the opportunity to become acquainted with various styles and movements in British art, such as Pre- Raphaelitism. Topics to be addressed 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 relationships 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