The ekphrastic fantastic: gazing at magic portraits in Victorian fiction

While Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray depicts the quintessential literary portrait endowed with uncanny life and movement, dozens of such magic portraits are featured in Victorian fiction. From the ravishing picture of the title character in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manion, Deborah Maria
Other Authors: Stewart, Garrett
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2010
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1360
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5399&context=etd