The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature : Subject, Ecology, Form (Hardcover)

Foreword? Introduction? 1. Idyll as Refuge: The Settler’s Dream? 2. ‘Cutting So “Sweetly”’: Idyllist Wood Engravings and the Lost Boxwood Forests? 3. Multicolour as Disavowal: The Racial Politics of the Nineteenth-Century Idyll??4. John Addington Symonds’s Theocritus and the Homoerotic Idyll in Sicily??5. Ancient and Modern: Attention and Environmental Change in the Victorian Pictorial Idyll? 6. Queer Pastoral Soundscapes and the Idyllic Voice: Vernon Lee, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Lady Archibald Campbell??7. Plant Subjects, Plant Erotics: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Creeping Idyll??8. Wondrous Transformation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s La Ghirlandata