Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism

by Thomas J. Tobin (Editor)

Overview

Pre-Raphaelitism's influence during the long nineteenth century was far-reaching, affecting artistic and literary thought in places, media, and times far removed from its origins in 1848 London. Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism examines the movement's development beyond England, from the continental "immortals" glorified by the nascent Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to later reactions against and in sympathy with the ideals of the movement after it had ended. This collection of essays by art historians, literary critics, fashion historians, women's studies scholars, and independent researchers from around the world enhances our understanding of the global impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the art-historical and literary developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791484227
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	338
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Thomas J. Tobin, a Ph.D. in English Literature from Duquesne University, is the Instructional Development Librarian at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His publications include Pre-Raphaelitism in the Nineteenth-Century Press: A Bibliography.

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
THOMAS J. TOBIN

1. An Inventory of the Pre-Raphaelite Mental Museum, October 1849
BÉATRICE LAURENT

2. William Holman Hunt, Race, and Orientalism
FRANCESCA VANKE ALTMAN

3. Rossetti's "A Last Confession" and Italian Nationalism
CHRISTOPHER M. KEIRSTEAD

4. A Dutch Lady of Shalott
LINDA A. GROEN

5. "Pre-Raphaelite Ornaments in the European Slaughterhouse": Pre-Raphaelitism and Croatian Culture
TATJANA JUKIC

6. Symbolist Debts to Pre-Raphaelitism: A Pan-European Phenomenon
SUSAN P. CASTERAS

7. William Morris's Later Writings and the Socialist Modernism of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
FLORENCE S. BOOS

8. Pre-Raphaelitism's Farewell Tour: "Israfel" [Gertrude Hudson] Goes to India
MARGARET D. STETZ

9. Pre-Raphaelitism in Hungary
ÉVA PÉTERI

10. Pre-Raphaelitism in Colonial Australia
JULIETTE PEERS

11. "Lo, here is felawschipe": Morris, Medievalism, and Christian Socialism in America
PAUL HARDWICK

12. "Count us but clay for them to fashion": Pre-Raphaelite Refashionings in Canada
DAVID LATHAM

13. Keats's Poetry as a Common Thread in English and American Pre-Raphaelitism
SARAH WOOTTON

Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

Tobin says that he aimed 'to create a good mix of work from scholars and enthusiastic lay persons,' and the result is a readable and fascinating book which looks at Pre-Raphaelitism from an unusual angle.— The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society

"It is unlikely that there will ever be complete agreement as to the limits of the term Pre-Raphaelitism, but Tobin's book will certainly help the argument to develop."— The Journal of William Morris Studies

"As promised by its title, this volume delivers a series of multinational perspectives on Pre-Raphaelitism and the movement's shaping influence on the cultures of the British colonies, continental Europe, and North America ... The resulting relationships are strikingly multidimensional; meaning is not only layered in these essays, but also emerges from a diverse array of intersecting horizontal and vertical perspectives."— Victorian Studies

"These essays offer great range and depth and provide a global perspective that significantly revises our understanding of Pre-Raphaelitism. They demonstrate Pre-Raphaelitism's continuities with a plethora of discourses and phenomena in world literature and art."— Nicholas Frankel, author of Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books

"This book presents a nice balance of literary and art-historical concerns and a wonderful geographical selection that studies the interchanges of this 'English' movement with a number of countries, including Canada, India, the United States, and many in Europe. A fascinating collection."— James Najarian, author of Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality and Desire

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