The Role of Inanimate Portraits in Carmilla and Dorian Grey

 
The Inanimate Portrait in
Carmilla and Dorian Grey
 
Giuseppe Dibenedetto
 
AA 2019-2020
 
   
   Introduction
 
Victorian society gave great importance to appearance
and wealth
 
Portraits and pictures were often commissioned or
bought to show families’ power and social status
 
These pictures would have to be morally uplifting
 
Carmilla 
and 
The Picture of Dorian Grey:
beauty, youth and the supernatural
 
These narratives show elements of the "Victorian
Gothic" literature
 
Beauty and youth are deeply intertwined with the
supernatural
 
Both Carmilla and Dorian Grey are perceived as
beautiful but repulsing
The portrait and the supernatural
 
The portrait marks the boundary
between the inner self and the
outer self
 
Carmilla appears as a young and
beautiful woman, although she
actually is a monstrous entity
 
Dorian Grey is beautiful and
charming, but he consumes
himself with vice
 
The portraits
hide the true
hideous
nature of
their subjects
 
 
Bibliography
 
Bălinişteanu-Furdu, Cătălina. “When Beauty Meets Decay: Cases of
Dandyism, Narcissism and Degeneration of Bodies in J.K. Huysmans’ À
Rebours and Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray.” 
Interstudia
, no. 23,
Jan. 2018, pp. 135–145. EBSCOhost,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=131646798
&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Béres, Laura. «Beauty and the Beast. The romanticization of abuse in
popular culture.» 
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 
vol. 2, no. 2, 1999,
https://doi.org/10.1177/2F136754949900200203. 
 Accessed 4 June 2020
Codell, J. F. "Victorian Portraits: Re-Tailoring Identities." 
Nineteenth-Century
Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 
vol. 34, no. 5, 2012, pp. 493-516,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2012.738089
, Accessed 4 June 2020.
 
Bibliography
 
Craft, Christopher. “Come See About Me: Enchantment of the Double in
The Picture of Dorian Gray.” 
Representations
, vol. 91, no. 1, 2005, p. 109.
EBSCOhost
, doi:10.1525/rep.2005.91.1.109. Accessed 4 June 2020.
Herendeen, W. H. “The Doré Controversy: Doré, Ruskin, and Victorian
Taste.” 
Victorian Studies
, vol. 25, no. 3, Spring 1982, p. 304. 
EBSCOhost
,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=30h&AN=6887680&la
ng=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 5 June 2020,
Huggins, Mike, ca.20./21.Jh. ..Verfasser. 
Vice and the Victorians
.
Bloomsbury, 2016. 
EBSCOhost
,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edshbz&AN=edshbz.
DE.605.HBZ01.021258359&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed
5 June 2020.
 
Bibliography
 
Ridenhour, Jamieson. "
 'If I Wasn’t a Girl, Would You Like 
Me Anyway?'
Le Fanu’s 
Carmilla 
and 
Alfredson’s 
Let the Right One In.
" 
The Universal
Vampire : Origins and Evolution of a Legend, 
edited by 
Brodman, Barbara,
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013, pp. 165-176. 
EBSCOhost
,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=548786&l
ang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 5 June 2020,
Riquelme, J. P. "Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark
Enlightenment, and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’" 
Modern Fiction Studies
,
vol. 46, no. 3, 2000, p. 609. 
EBSCOhost
,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.262
86067&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 6 June 2020,
 
Bibliography
 
Trehuerz, Julian. "Victorian Painting." 
Contemporary Review
, vol. 263, no.
n1534, Nov. 1993, p. 280. 
EBSCOhost
,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgit&AN=edsgit.A3
4137849&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 6 June 2020.
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Victorian society's emphasis on appearance and status is reflected in the commissioned portraits of characters like Carmilla and Dorian Grey. These portraits serve as a boundary between the outer beauty and the inner, often hideous, nature of the subjects, highlighting themes of beauty, decay, and the supernatural in Victorian Gothic literature.


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  1. The Inanimate Portrait in Carmilla and Dorian Grey Giuseppe Dibenedetto AA 2019-2020

  2. Introduction Victorian society gave great importance to appearance and wealth Portraits and pictures were often commissioned or bought to show families power and social status These pictures would have to be morally uplifting

  3. Carmilla and The Picture of Dorian Grey: beauty, youth and the supernatural These narratives show elements of the "Victorian Gothic" literature Beauty and youth are deeply intertwined with the supernatural Both Carmilla and Dorian Grey are perceived as beautiful but repulsing

  4. The portrait and the supernatural The portraits hide the true hideous nature of their subjects The portrait marks the boundary between the inner self and the outer self Carmilla appears as a young and beautiful woman, although she actually is a monstrous entity Dorian Grey is beautiful and charming, but he consumes himself with vice

  5. Bibliography B lini teanu-Furdu, C t lina. When Beauty Meets Decay: Cases of Dandyism, Narcissism and Degeneration of Bodies in J.K. Huysmans Rebours and Oscar Wilde sthe Picture of Dorian Gray. Interstudia, no. 23, Jan. 2018, pp. 135 145. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=131646798 &lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. B res, Laura. Beauty and the Beast. The romanticization of abuse in popular culture. European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1999, https://doi.org/10.1177/2F136754949900200203. Accessed 4 June 2020 Codell, J. F. "Victorian Portraits: Re-Tailoring Identities." Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 34, no. 5, 2012, pp. 493-516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2012.738089, Accessed 4 June 2020.

  6. Bibliography Craft, Christopher. Come See About Me: Enchantment of the Double in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Representations, vol. 91, no. 1, 2005, p. 109. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1525/rep.2005.91.1.109. Accessed 4 June 2020. Herendeen, W. H. The Dor Controversy: Dor , Ruskin, and Victorian Taste. Victorian Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, Spring 1982, p. 304. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=30h&AN=6887680&la ng=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 5 June 2020, Huggins, Mike, ca.20./21.Jh. ..Verfasser. Vice and the Victorians. Bloomsbury, 2016. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edshbz&AN=edshbz. DE.605.HBZ01.021258359&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 5 June 2020.

  7. Bibliography Ridenhour, Jamieson. " 'If I Wasn t a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?' Le Fanu sCarmilla and Alfredson s Let the Right One In." The Universal Vampire : Origins and Evolution of a Legend, edited by Brodman, Barbara, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013, pp. 165-176. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=548786&l ang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 5 June 2020, Riquelme, J. P. "Oscar Wilde s Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. " Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, 2000, p. 609. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.262 86067&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 6 June 2020,

  8. Bibliography Trehuerz, Julian. "Victorian Painting." Contemporary Review, vol. 263, no. n1534, Nov. 1993, p. 280. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgit&AN=edsgit.A3 4137849&lang=it&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed 6 June 2020.

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