Pleasures Taken Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs 1st Edition – (PDF/EPUB Version)

Lewis Carroll’s photographs of young girls, Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs of Madonnas and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, “maid of all work”, pictured in masquerade – Carol Mavor addresses the erotic possibilities of these images, exploring not ony the sexualities of the girls, maids and Madonnas, but the pleasures taken – by the viewer, the photographer, the model – in imagining these sexualities.