‘Something strangely perverse’. Nature and Gender in J. E. Millais’s Ophelia
This paper analyses J. E. Millais’s Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia. Drawing on ideas formulated by Hermann Broch regarding the origins of romanticism and Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory of a dialectic of Enlightenment, the analysis focuses on the complex handling of gender and nature in the painting...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Romantik |
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| Online Access: | https://vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.14220/jsor.2018.7.1.115 |