Haunted Texts: Studies in Pre-Raphaelitism in Honour of William E. Fredeman

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University of Toronto Press, 2003 M01 1 - 267 páginas

Begun by young rebels committed to revolutionizing the creative arts, Pre-Raphaelitism has moved from the margins of nineteenth-century art and literature to the vanguard of interdisciplinary studies. The term is now used to denote the Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent movements in art, culture, and literature, but it has remained as difficult to define as ever. Haunted Texts attempts to meet the challenge of defining and illustrating the full spectrum of Pre-Raphaelitism.

Working with a diverse range of Pre-Raphaelite poetry, painting, decorative arts, book illustration, and political prose, the ten contributors to Haunted Texts pursue the critical strategies of such leading figures as Christina Rossetti and Dante Rossetti, William Morris and Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and Aubrey Beardsley. The essays consider the bibliocritical issues of archival research concerning the personal letters and diaries of the Rossetti family; the technological issues that challenge conventional methods of scholarship; the gender issues concerning constructions of identity derived from the changing conceptions of love, desire, anxiety, and brotherhood; and the interdisciplinary cultural issues that transgress the borders of high art and popular culture.

Haunted Texts pays tribute to the scholarship of Professor William Fredeman who devoted much of his career since the 1950s to establishing a critical foundation that would enable future scholars to define their understanding of the complexity of Pre-Raphaelitism.

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Contenido

A Commentary on Some of Rossettis Translations from Dante
35
Seduction and Loss
53
William Michael Rossetti and the Making
71
Arthur Hughes
91
Reading Aright the Politcal Texts of Morriss
119
A Retrospective
211
A Checklist of Publications
237
Contributors
247
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Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (2003)

David Latham is an Adjunct Professor of English at York University and is the editor of The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies.

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