Victorian Portraits: Re-Tailoring Identities

Codell, Julie F.

doi:10.1080/08905495.2012.738089

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“…Photography scholars have explored the evolution of photographic conventions like poses, backgrounds, and props as well as the purpose and popularity of photography in the nineteenth century. 45 Commercial photographers, who catered to the general public and whose resources for elaborate studios were limited, composed studio portraits within a set of commonly-employed guidelines for portrait composition. Within these parameters, however, the subjects had considerable latitude in choosing how to represent themselves.…”

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Portraits and Gravestones: Documenting the Transnational Lives of Nineteenth-Century British-Métis Students

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Portraits and Gravestones: Documenting the Transnational Lives of Nineteenth-Century British-Métis Students

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‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest

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This essay illuminates the elusive and messy archives of an unusual presence in the Victorian court, that of Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841‒1864), daughter of the deposed King of Coorg, Chikka Virarajendra and goddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria. The messy and circuitous archives of Gouramma reveal the story of a colonized, racialized, exteriorized colonial subject becoming an ornamental interior of the Empire. Gouramma had found herself in 1850s England, displaced from her homeland and culture, anglicized and Christianized, pruned and displayed as the glorious civilizational project of the Empire, and yet never truly being an inhabitant of Victorian interiors. Queen Victoria’s royal court, within which Gouramma’s material and ephemeral presence is articulated, was fashioned as a sanctuary from the ‘savage’ and ‘primitive’ colony of Gouramma’s past. In this unique instantiation of imperial conquest founded upon care and rehabilitation, we are prompted to rethink not only the colonial civilizational agenda but also the contentious intimacies amongst the Empire and its colonies. Through an analysis of the recorded and recollected interactions between the Queen and her Indian ward, this essay charts out the emergence of a maternal politics—care and conquest—that wielded a specific epistemological, ontological power and an insidious psychic conquest of personhood.

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Victorian Portraits: Re-Tailoring Identities

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Portraits and Gravestones: Documenting the Transnational Lives of Nineteenth-Century British-Métis Students

Portraits and Gravestones: Documenting the Transnational Lives of Nineteenth-Century British-Métis Students

‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest

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