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Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings is an international collection of essays written by seasoned and emerging scholars. This book explores, discusses, and provides new perspectives on Pre-Raphaelite paintings inspired by poems and poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, ranging from the inauguration of the movement in 1848 until the end of the nineteenth century. Through a textual and visual journey, this work reflects an innovative approach to Pre-Raphaelite art and Victorian poetry. The rationale in collating this collection of essays is to suggest new approaches for studies in Victorian visual and verbal art. This collection urges new ways of looking at Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry and its dynamic impact on the changing face of Victorian artistic practices through the second half of the nineteenth century, re-evaluating the extent to which this relatively short-lived movement influenced diverse writers and artists and their work. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian poetry and painting, and the intersection between them.
List of contents
Plates - Notes on Contributors - Acknowledgments - Sophia Andres/Brian Donnelly: Pre-Raphaelite Poetic Paintings: Transcending Spatial and Temporal Boundaries - Serena Trowbridge: Gender and Space in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of "The Eve of St Agnes" - Divya Athmanathan: "Good pictures ... are always another poem": Mapping Spatialities in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" and Elizabeth Siddal's The Lady of Shalott - Dante Alighieri's Dreams in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Paintings - Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: "A Dramatis Personae of the Soul": Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine - Martina John: " Portrait of the Artist as an Italian Poet: Rossetti's Dante - Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems in Paintings: Photography, Realism and Painting - Enrique Olivares: Interpretation and Representation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Sonnets for Pictures" - Daniel Brown: "They that would look on her": Jane Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and "The Portrait" - Modernity's Kaleidoscopic Views - Amelia Yeates: Poetic Narrative in William Morris's and Edward Burne- Jones's Pygmalion Project - Sarah Banschbach Valles: Aestheticism and Violent Delight in the Sister Arts of A. C. Swinburne and Simeon Solomon - Anne Koval: From Poet to Painter: The Aestheticism of Swinburne and Whistler - Sophia Andres: Conclusion: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of Classical Texts - Bibliography - Index.
About the author
Sophia Andres is Professor of English and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She is the author of The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries (winner of the 2006 SCMLA Book Award).
Brian Donnelly is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Painter as Poet (2015).
Summary
Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings explores, discusses, and provides new perspectives on Pre-Raphaelite paintings inspired by poems and poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, ranging from the inauguration of the movement in 1848 until the end of the nineteenth century.
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"This thought-provoking collection of essays explores the intersection of Pre-Raphaelite painting and poetry and reimagines a poetics of the visual. By destabilizing the categories of verbal and visual representation and bringing together familiar and unfamiliar poems and paintings, the authors model new and exciting ways of thinking about gender, musicality, photography, the temporal-spatial divide, the use of the voice, morality, sexuality, social implications, and aestheticism as they are conveyed through word and image by the Pre-Raphaelites." Constance M. Fulmer, Blanche E. Seaver Chair of English Literature, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
