@article{858026,
      author = {Durgan, Jessica,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/858026},
      title = {Art, race, and fantastic color change in the Victorian  novel /},
      abstract = {"As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume  notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in  which Victorian authors who were also trained as artists  dream up fantastically colored characters for their  fiction. These strange and eccentric characters include the  purple madwoman Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë's Jane  Eyre (1847), the blue gentleman Oscar Dubourg from Wilkie  Collins's Poor Miss Finch (1872), the red peddler Diggory  Venn in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878), and  the little yellow girls of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Yellow  Face" (1893) and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret  Garden (1911). While color has been historically viewed as  suspicious and seductive in Western culture, the Victorian  period constitutes a significant moment in the history of  color: the rapid development of new color technologies and  the upheavals of the first avant-garde art movements result  in an increase in coloring's prestige in the art academies.  At the same time, race science appropriates color, using it  as a criterion for classification in the establishment of  global racial hierarchies. These artist-authors draw on  color's traditional association with constructions of  otherness to consider questions of identity and difference  through the imaginative possibilities of color"--},
      recid = {858026},
      pages = {148 pages :},
}