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Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting
Lindsay Smith
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This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin’s work upon the poets and painters, Smith focuses in particular upon the Pre-Raphaelite rehabilitation of the sister arts analogy, and an aesthetic of ekphrasis as played out in the short-lived periodical The Germ and in D.G. Rossetti’s sonnets for pictures. At the heart of the project is a new reading of the notorious circumstances of ... Read more
This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin’s work upon the poets and painters, Smith focuses in particular upon the Pre-Raphaelite rehabilitation of the sister arts analogy, and an aesthetic of ekphrasis as played out in the short-lived periodical The Germ and in D.G. Rossetti’s sonnets for pictures. At the heart of the project is a new reading of the notorious circumstances of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746308059
SKU
V9780746308059
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About Lindsay Smith
Lindsay Smith is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has published widely on nineteenth century poetry, painting and photography most recently ‘The Nineteenth Century Photographic Likeness and the Body of the Child’ in Children and Sexuality: From the Greeks to the Great War (Palgrave 2007) and ‘The Wont of Photography or the Pleasure of Mimesis’, Illustrations, Optics ... Read more
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