Urbanisation: Discourse class gender in mid-Victorian photographs of maids - reading the archive of Arthur J. Munby.
This article investigates the relationship between discourses held in early photography and the negotiation of new urban class and gender-based identities in the mid-nineteenth century in England. It will do this by examining part of the early photographic archive compiled by Arthur J. Munby (1828-1...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 303 - 318 |
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