Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century

by KimberlyRhodes (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $151.56

  Explores the representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Victorian period. This book examines the disseminated representations of Ophelia, from works by artists and writers, to interpretations of her character in contemporary productions of Hamlet , revealing her as a nexus of the struggle for the female body's subjugation.