‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain

When Vernon Lee visited Southern Spain in 1889, she found the Catholic practices of the country extremely unsettling. The overloaded decoration of the churches and the preference for representations of bleeding Christs were, in Lee’s eyes, ‘obscene’ and ‘excessive’. Above all, the Spanish madonnas,...

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Main Author: Leire Barrera-Medrano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2016-05-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2457
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