Hilary Fraser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Fraser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraser |
| SIGNATURE | FRASER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7130-8963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Utilitarians, Educators, Poets
The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. The prestige periodical, founded on faith in the power of print media to improve lives by the diffusion of knowledge through the social body, and the institution undertaking a more direct and practical route to the same end, were evidently of the same political spirit and historical moment. This article seeks to add texture to the…
Sister arts
The poet, essayist, and art critic Alice Meynell and her sister, the painter Elizabeth Butler, shared a strong interest in colour. Where Butler applies her educated chromatic sensibility to her painting, Meynell brings her own knowledgeable appreciation of the aesthetic effects and cultural and figurative significations of colour to her essays and critical work on modern art. Her lyrical explorations of the poetics of colour in the natural, urban…
Art and the Literary
This essay explores the creative dialogue between practices of writing, reading, and viewing in the Victorian period evident from the proliferation of new or greatly enhanced intermedial forms: illustrated books and magazines; narrative and genre paintings; pictures with accompanying texts; the portrait as an experimental literary form; fiction about art; ekphrastic poetry; and the new genre of art literature. It asks, what were the historical co…
Always Reminding Us of the Body”
In his volume on The Fine Arts in Renaissance in Italy , published in 1877, John Addington Symonds maintains that “the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of figurative art are opposed, not because such art is immoral, but because it cannot free itself from sensuous associations”. Indeed, he goes on to identify “the difficult problem of the relation of the fine arts to Christianity” as “the most thorny question offered to the understanding by t…
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Beauty and Belief
A Visual Field
In 1892, Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913) published a volume of poetry with the title Sight and Song based on their response to a series of paintings in British and Continental public galleries. Bradley and Cooper, aunt and niece, devoted lovers, who over the three decades of their writing lives produced numerous volumes of poetry and plays collaboratively under the authorial signature “Michael Field,” had already made t…
Mirror Visions and Dissolving Views
The nineteenth century has been described as “the age of the museum’s birth” and, pace Baudrillard, “the true age of the emergent hyperreal,” as the historical moment when the museological enterpri
Gender and romance in Ruskin's “two boyhoods”
Women and the Ends of Art History
That certain weed-growths on the ravaged wall Seem' . . . something that I could not say at all, My thought being rather-as absorbed she sent Look onward after look from eyes distent With longing to reach Heaven's gate left ajar'Oh, fancies that might be, oh, facts that are! What of a wilding? By you stands, and may So stand unnoticed till the Judgement Day, One who, if once aware that your regard Claimed what his heart holds, -woke, as from its …
Browning and Nineteenth-Century Historiography
(1989). BROWNING AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORIOGRAPHY. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 13-29
A Visual Field
In 1892, Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913) published a volume of poetry with the title Sight and Song based on their response to a series of paintings in British and Continental public galleries. Bradley and Cooper, aunt and niece, devoted lovers, who over the three decades of their writing lives produced numerous volumes of poetry and plays collaboratively under the authorial signature “Michael Field,” had already made t…
Women and the Ends of Art History
That certain weed-growths on the ravaged wall Seem' . . . something that I could not say at all, My thought being rather-as absorbed she sent Look onward after look from eyes distent With longing to reach Heaven's gate left ajar'Oh, fancies that might be, oh, facts that are! What of a wilding? By you stands, and may So stand unnoticed till the Judgement Day, One who, if once aware that your regard Claimed what his heart holds, -woke, as from its …
Browning and Nineteenth-Century Historiography
(1989). BROWNING AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORIOGRAPHY. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 13-29
Women and the Ends of Art History
That certain weed-growths on the ravaged wall Seem' . . . something that I could not say at all, My thought being rather-as absorbed she sent Look onward after look from eyes distent With longing to reach Heaven's gate left ajar'Oh, fancies that might be, oh, facts that are! What of a wilding? By you stands, and may So stand unnoticed till the Judgement Day, One who, if once aware that your regard Claimed what his heart holds, -woke, as from its …
Gender and romance in Ruskin's “two boyhoods”
A Visual Field
In 1892, Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913) published a volume of poetry with the title Sight and Song based on their response to a series of paintings in British and Continental public galleries. Bradley and Cooper, aunt and niece, devoted lovers, who over the three decades of their writing lives produced numerous volumes of poetry and plays collaboratively under the authorial signature “Michael Field,” had already made t…
Mirror Visions and Dissolving Views
The nineteenth century has been described as “the age of the museum’s birth” and, pace Baudrillard, “the true age of the emergent hyperreal,” as the historical moment when the museological enterpri
Beauty and Belief
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…
Always Reminding Us of the Body”
In his volume on The Fine Arts in Renaissance in Italy , published in 1877, John Addington Symonds maintains that “the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of figurative art are opposed, not because such art is immoral, but because it cannot free itself from sensuous associations”. Indeed, he goes on to identify “the difficult problem of the relation of the fine arts to Christianity” as “the most thorny question offered to the understanding by t…
Art and the Literary
This essay explores the creative dialogue between practices of writing, reading, and viewing in the Victorian period evident from the proliferation of new or greatly enhanced intermedial forms: illustrated books and magazines; narrative and genre paintings; pictures with accompanying texts; the portrait as an experimental literary form; fiction about art; ekphrastic poetry; and the new genre of art literature. It asks, what were the historical co…
Sister arts
The poet, essayist, and art critic Alice Meynell and her sister, the painter Elizabeth Butler, shared a strong interest in colour. Where Butler applies her educated chromatic sensibility to her painting, Meynell brings her own knowledgeable appreciation of the aesthetic effects and cultural and figurative significations of colour to her essays and critical work on modern art. Her lyrical explorations of the poetics of colour in the natural, urban…
Utilitarians, Educators, Poets
The Westminster Review and the London Mechanics’ Institution were established within months of each other in 1823–24. The prestige periodical, founded on faith in the power of print media to improve lives by the diffusion of knowledge through the social body, and the institution undertaking a more direct and practical route to the same end, were evidently of the same political spirit and historical moment. This article seeks to add texture to the…
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