Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain
Product Specifications
- Title: Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain
- Author: Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG & Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- History of art art & design styles
- No. of pages: 248
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 152 x 225 x 19
Product Description
The figure of the beautiful reclining female sleeper is a recurring theme in the Victorian imagination. This book compiles and examines a corpus of Sleeping Beauties drawn from Victorian medical reports literature and the arts and explores the significance of the enduring revival of the myth.