Love & death: art in the age of Queen Victoria. Angus Trumble. 2002.

Love & Death: Art in the age of Queen Victoria presents a sweeping examination of the two great preoccupations that defined Victorian visual culture - romantic love and the omnipresence of mortality. Angus Trumble argues with wit and scholarly precision that these twin obsessions shaped not only the subject matter of Victorian painting and sculpture but also the very emotional grammar through which an entire society understood itself.