Fashioning the Viceroy
Portraits of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831–91)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracy Anderson (0000-0001-8481-5781, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-311 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2011.609377 |
| OpenAlex | W2067736084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article considers the visual representation of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Viceroy and Governor-General of India from 1876 to 1880. In his photographic and painted portraits, as well as in his treatment by satirists, Lytton’s problematic gendered and imperial identities are seen to intersect awkwardly, reflecting and informing anxieties about late nineteenth-century forms of masculinity and colonialism. His perceived weaknesses were therefore visualized in terms of emasculation and feminization, in a manner which worked simultaneously to explain and to obfuscate his policy decisions as Viceroy. As a consequence, Lytton’s image became a vehicle through which broader failings of imperial policy could be projected. After his return from India, portraiture also became a vehicle through which Lytton could be inserted into the late Victorian canon of masculine examplars
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Governor · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2016 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |