Stetz curated Beyond Oscar Wilde, an exhibition focusing on the surge of interest in portraits of writers and artists in Victorian Britain, for the U. of Delaware's University Gallery. This
volume expands on that exhibition, detailing how Victorians "read" the faces of public figures and why such portraits became ubiquitous. Approximately 110 b&w reproductions of drawings,
paintings, photographs, and lithographs are each accompanied by a brief analysis of how the portraitist meant to depict their subject. Among the figures portrayed are Wilde, Sir John Irving,
Rudyard Kipling, Caroline Blanche, Robert Browning, Tennyson, and James McNeill Whistler. This book is distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland,
OR (booknews.com)
