The Significance of Victorian England for the Cottagecore Aesthetic
This article contemplates the idyllic imagery of Elizabeth Gaskell's rural texts in relation to the key visual motifs of the Internet aesthetic "cottagecore." Meanwhile, the paper also strives to highlight the importance of both the Victorian era, particularly its literature and art,...
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| description | This article contemplates the idyllic imagery of Elizabeth Gaskell's rural texts in relation to the key visual motifs of the Internet aesthetic "cottagecore." Meanwhile, the paper also strives to highlight the importance of both the Victorian era, particularly its literature and art, with regard to this popular Internet aesthetic. With some brief references to influential figures of the age, the cultural timeframe surrounding Gaskell's rural fiction is shown to offer significant historical relevance to the romanticisation of the English country-cottage life. The literary and pictorial texts serve as examples of this cultural process. Considering the author's mostly ornamental use of cottages in Wives and Daughters as well as her employment of floral characterisation, the paper also highlights the visual aesthetics of the cottage art of Helen Allingham and Myles Birket Foster as well as rural depictions made by illustrators of Gaskell's provincial works that display the visual after-life of Gaskell's rural texts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef4d1849ee594d498b66aa82811c1cfa2023-12-20T22:06:22ZengNew Bulgarian UniversityEnglish Studies at NBU2367-57052367-87042023-12-019229331110.33919/esnbu.23.2.8The Significance of Victorian England for the Cottagecore AestheticEdgar James Ælred Jephcote0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0942-5799Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, PolandThis article contemplates the idyllic imagery of Elizabeth Gaskell's rural texts in relation to the key visual motifs of the Internet aesthetic "cottagecore." Meanwhile, the paper also strives to highlight the importance of both the Victorian era, particularly its literature and art, with regard to this popular Internet aesthetic. With some brief references to influential figures of the age, the cultural timeframe surrounding Gaskell's rural fiction is shown to offer significant historical relevance to the romanticisation of the English country-cottage life. The literary and pictorial texts serve as examples of this cultural process. Considering the author's mostly ornamental use of cottages in Wives and Daughters as well as her employment of floral characterisation, the paper also highlights the visual aesthetics of the cottage art of Helen Allingham and Myles Birket Foster as well as rural depictions made by illustrators of Gaskell's provincial works that display the visual after-life of Gaskell's rural texts.https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.23.2.8cottagecorecottage arthelen allinghammyles birket fosterelizabeth gaskellgaskell's illustratorsinternet aestheticsnostalgia |
| spellingShingle | Edgar James Ælred Jephcote The Significance of Victorian England for the Cottagecore Aesthetic English Studies at NBU cottagecore cottage art helen allingham myles birket foster elizabeth gaskell gaskell's illustrators internet aesthetics nostalgia |
| title | The Significance of Victorian England for the Cottagecore Aesthetic |
| title_full | The Significance of Victorian England for the Cottagecore Aesthetic |
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| title_short | The Significance of Victorian England for the Cottagecore Aesthetic |
| title_sort | significance of victorian england for the cottagecore aesthetic |
| topic | cottagecore cottage art helen allingham myles birket foster elizabeth gaskell gaskell's illustrators internet aesthetics nostalgia |
| url | https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.23.2.8 |
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