Missouri University of Science and Technology Scholars' Mine English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works English and Technical Communication 26 Oct 2017 Hothouse Victorians: Art and Agency in Freshwater Kristine Swenson Missouri University of Science and Technology,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/eng_teccom_facwork Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Swenson, Kristine. "Hothouse Victorians: Art and Agency in Freshwater." Open Cultural Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, De Gruyter Open, 2017, pp.183-193. The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article - Journal is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars' Mine. It has been accepted for inclusion in English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works by an authorized administrator of Scholars' Mine. This work is protected by U. S. Copyright Law. Unauthorized use including reproduction for redistribution requires the permission of the copyright holder. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Open Cultural Studies 2017; 1: 183–193 Research Article Kristine Swenson* Hothouse Victorians: Art and Agency in Freshwater https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0017 Received March 29, 2017; accepted October 18, 2017 Abstract: The Victorian artistic community that grew up on the Isle of Wight around Tennyson and Julia Margaret Cameron has been reimagined in Virginia Woolf's play, Freshwater (1923, 1935), and more recently in Lynn Truss's novel, Tennyson's Gift (1996). Whereas Freshwater should be read as modernist or post- Victorian, Tennyson's Gift is neo-Victorian and postmodern in its form and attitude.