{"product_id":"becoming-9780822323891","title":"Becoming","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClementina, Viscountess Hawarden produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. In this title, these pictures become windows into Victorian culture, eroticism, mother-daughter relationships, and intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The author’s perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, exhibition, maternity, sexuality, just to name a few of the themes in play here, open up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does.”—Joseph Litvak, author of \u003ci\u003eStrange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eHandsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure—indeed, unforgettable.”—Richard Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Preface: “Only, my secret’s mine, and I won’t tell”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An Erotic Note\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Queer Note\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Adolescent Reverie\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reduplicative Desires\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “In Which the Story Pauses a Little” \u003cbr\u003e Sapphic Narcissa\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Collecting Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Postscript\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index 211\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406023860567,"sku":"9780822323891","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822323891.jpg?v=1730494279","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-9780822323891","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}