‘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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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2457 |
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