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I'm talking about Victorian responses to American cocktails at #bavs2019 on Wednesday. It's part of a fab panel on transatlantic substances, featuring @VictorianMasc, @DrDouglasSmall, and @drbeard79. I'll be making drinks, so come along if you fancy sampling a 'corpse reviver'! 
@VictorianMasc @DrDouglasSmall @drbeard79 We've got @DrDouglasSmall talking about cocaine - but no free samples for this paper, I'm afraid:
@VictorianMasc @DrDouglasSmall @drbeard79 And we've got @VictorianMasc on sugar (plus vampires and cowboys!)
I mean not that I wrote an entire 30,000 word MRes thesis on almost precisely this subject, but what I have to say about this is
"Central Principle" - so are we talking 1st or 2nd wave Pre-Raphaelitism? Inasmuch as there even were central principle(s), they were an *aesthetic* return to medievalism, paired with liberal, socialist politics.
If you *want* to tie the PRB to political shifts, tie it to the 1848 European revolutions. The Pre-Raphaelites wanted to shake up the elitism and traditionalism of the Royal Academy system.
Honestly, Pre-Raphaelites could be pretty racist, but this explanation is a stretch.
Honestly, Pre-Raphaelites could be pretty racist, but this explanation is a stretch.
