PUBLICATIONS // Dr Emma Merkling

2024

• [in review] Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling, ‘Queer Darwin, Plant-Human Entanglements, and Aestheticist Art’, in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, special issue: Queering Nature (expected 2024)

2023

• Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (eds), The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
  
  
• Emma Merkling, ‘Plant Subjects, Plant Erotics: Julia Margaret Cameron's Creeping Idyll‘, in The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form, ed. by Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)

• Emma Merkling, ‘Physics, Psychical Research, and the Self: Evelyn De Morgan’s Spiritualist Portraits’, Art History 46.3 (2023), DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.12726

2022

• Emma Merkling, ‘“Symbols Bewitched”: Evelyn De Morgan’s Symbolic Logic’, in Evelyn and William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts and Crafts, ed. by Margaretta S. Frederick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), pp. 129–39

2020

• Emma Merkling, ‘Eros, Thanatos, and the Throuple: Alfred Gilbert’s Mors Janua Vitae (1908)’, Gender and Sexuality Research Group Blog (The Courtauld Research Forum)

2019

• Emma Merkling, Review of Elizabeth Prettejohn. Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2017. 288 pp.; 130 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300222753), caa reviews (2019). DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2019.129

• Emma Merkling, Review of ‘Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope,’ Manchester Art Gallery, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.851
  

2018

• Emma Merkling, ‘The Sensate Body: Consciousness in Albert Moore’s Art’, immediations 4.3 (2018): 50-70