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Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes (2014)
Journal Article
Janes. (2014). Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes. Literature and History, 19-32. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.1.2

The life and work of John Maynard Keynes should be situated in relation to his membership of the Bloomsbury Group. The members of this circle of friends experimented in their lives and works with a variety of transgressions of contemporary expectatio... Read More about Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes.

The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion (2014)
Journal Article
Janes. (2014). The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion. Victorian Periodicals Review, 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2014.0006

Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion are frequently found in early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism in the 1840s and Roman Catholic revivalism in the early 1850s came in for particular a... Read More about The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion.

Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the queer, transatlantic origins of pop art
Journal Article
Janes. (2015). Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the queer, transatlantic origins of pop art. Visual Culture in Britain, 308-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2015.1092282

Significant aspects of American pop art are now understood as participating in the queer visual culture of New York in the 1960s. This article suggests something similar can be said of the British origins of pop art, not only at the time of, but also... Read More about Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the queer, transatlantic origins of pop art.

Gothic visions of classical architecture in Hablot Knight Browne’s dark illustrations for the novels of Charles Dickens
Journal Article
Janes. (2014). Gothic visions of classical architecture in Hablot Knight Browne’s dark illustrations for the novels of Charles Dickens. https://doi.org/10.7227/gs.16.2.3. Manuscript submitted for publication

In the early gothic literature of the eighteenth century danger lurked in the darkness beneath the pointed arches of gothic buildings. During the nineteenth century, there was a progressive, although never complete, dislocation of gothic literary rea... Read More about Gothic visions of classical architecture in Hablot Knight Browne’s dark illustrations for the novels of Charles Dickens.