Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and ArtThis collection of original essays offers a broad and varied discussion of gender issues and treatments of sexuality in Victorian poetry, fiction, and visual arts. Featuring a representative selection of artistspoets, novelists, painters, sculptors, playwrights, and dancersthese critical analyses explore the ways in which women as artists, as subjects, and as icons function either to challenge and revise or to reify their society's gender ideologies.