Photo: Elizabeth & Robert Browning
Photo: PJ Harvey/London
I included pictures of one of my favorite musical artists, Polly Jean Harvey, with one of my favorite Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, because I've always thought they look alike to some degree. P.J. Harvey has also been included in literary comparisons with Victorian women, dead women poets, or rather, the way Victorian women poets portray dead women as a part of their identity, or loss of it. P.J. Harvey is linked to them due to her style and contemporary approach to the topic of female identity in her lyrics and musical expression. Here is a link to one essay on the topic:
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/english/files/fred_essay_06.pdf
In the Longman Anthology (2nd ed.), British Literature, in The Victorian Age, under the heading "The Age of Self-Scrutiny," the author says that "the energy of the Victorian literature is its most striking trait, and self-exploration is its favorite theme" (p. 469).
Although Harvey's music is often along the lines of the punk genre, she explores other musical influences in the search of feminine identity through Victorian expression in literature and applies it in new ways through some of her works, such as her album "Dry." Her Victorian influenced dresses can also be seen on her album cover "White Chalk."
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