A Lady’s Transnational Journey Beyond the Veil: Aesthetics of Female Health and Disease, Social Distancing & Transformative Healing

A Lady’s Transnational Journey Beyond the Veil: Aesthetics of Female Health and Disease, Social Distancing & Transformative Healing

The guest author for this post is Maryam Farahani, She is a Research Associate at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of Psycho-Literary Perspectives in Multimodal Contexts. During the long nineteenth century, Western Orientalists designed intimate portraits of the East, informed by new aesthetic principles. William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), for instance, painted a...
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