Reframing Amy Levy: Photography, Celebrity, and Posthumous Representation

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This article examines the representation of poet and novelist Amy Levy (1861–89) after her death, focusing on how photographic portrait becomes foundation for posthumous celebrity. Following suicide at age twenty-seven, Levy's life became surrounded by rumour, as commentators sought to explain why a talented young writer would take life. While reviewers memoirists interpret poetry autobiographically, they also turn face key character, following theories physiognomy. In process, image, enshrined in frontispiece photograph Montabone, battleground various ideological interpretations, writers including Harry Quilter, Katharine Tynan, Grant Allen set work reanimating order support their own ideas about female education, genius ‘madness’, degeneration, Jewish identity. particular draws eugenic transform into damaging fictional Under Sealed Orders (1894). novel, combined with poetic elegies, co-opts image ways that resonate long-standing notions doomed Romantic tragic ‘poetess’, legacy has implications not only enduring reputation, but other late-nineteenth- twentieth-century women poets followed wake.

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عنوان ژورنال: Victoriographies

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2044-2416', '2044-2424']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2022.0447