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Uses fiction to reveal truths about families, about communities, about art objects, about love, and about mourning.

The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from space--blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its all-encompassing presence. The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the world's religions, eggs, science, slavery, gender, sex, art, the literary past, and contemporary film. Carol Mavor's engaging and elegiac readings in this beautifully illustrated book take the reader fro...

On Carroll's photographs of girls, on Cameron's photographs of madonnas, on the topics of death, sex, and girlhood, Mavor has produced iconoclastic, illuminating, and consistently thoughtful readings."--Henry Abelove, coeditor of "The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

Carol Mavor takes in the many shades and meanings of the colour blue, including those of science, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Slavery, gender, sex, ornithology, the literary past, and film.

Exquisite, image-filled ruminations on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible

Exquisite, image-filled ruminations on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible

In Aurelia, Carol Mavor reads the world of literature and art through the lens of the fairy tale.

On Carroll's photographs of girls, on Cameron's photographs of madonnas, on the topics of death, sex, and girlhood, Mavor has produced iconoclastic, illuminating, and consistently thoughtful readings."--Henry Abelove, coeditor of "The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822–1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper-class homes of the Victorian period, Lady Hawarden transformed the sitting room of her London residence into a photographic studio—a private space for taking surprising photos of her daughters in fanc...

Study of nostalgic representations of the maternal, the home, and childhood in the literature and photographs of early-20th-century artists.

Study of nostalgic representations of the maternal, the home, and childhood in the literature and photographs of early-20th-century artists.

A writerly study of Lady Hawarden's photographs and other visual representations of the complex erotics of adolescent girlhood.