Race and gender in Victorian illustrated songs: a critical and cultural analysis.

Cross, Rachel 2024. Race and gender in Victorian illustrated songs: a critical and cultural analysis. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Victorian illustrated songs are almost unique in combining image, music and text within one publication. They are distinctive cultural indicators of their time for two principal reasons. Firstly, illustrated songs are significant in the variety of subjects they cover, and secondly, they are noteworthy for presenting these subjects through three different artforms in close juxtaposition. The form of illustrated songs offers extensive opportunity for analysis yet, whilst much has been written on Victorian song and nineteenth-century illustration independently, the illustrated song as a whole has been relatively neglected. Teasing out the cultural and aesthetic implications of its form, I use theories from cultural, literary and illustration studies and musicology to evaluate how relationships between these closely presented media reveal Victorian ideologies. My thesis therefore focuses on what the complete illustrated song discloses about aspects of Victorian culture in the way its three media interact with each other and with other imagery, texts and music. It is within these intersections that we can discover more about Victorian beliefs. The study is focused around two areas that were under debate in the nineteenth century: the roles of Black people and females. Investigating the representations of each of these marginalised groups in the three artforms’ intersections gives new insight into Victorian socio-cultural constructions. Moreover, examining the relationships between the media of the illustrated song also offers opportunity to add to continuing discussions on the intersections between different artforms

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 May 2024
Last Modified:	20 May 2024 14:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169039

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