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Pre-Raphaelite Body Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry, and Criticism

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ISBN-10: 0198182570

ISBN-13: 9780198182573

Edition: 1998

Authors: J. B. Bullen

List price: $230.00
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Pre-Raphaelitism was the first avant-garde movement in Britain. It shocked its first audience, and as it modulated into Aestheticism it continued to disturb the British public. In this fresh and original study, Professor Bullen traces the sources of that shock to the representation of the human body. By examining the discourses which were developed to denounce or to explain the new art forms he shows that the distorted, maimed, or eroticized body formed the principal focus of anxiety in nineteenth-century criticism. Using a truly interdisciplinary method he relates the painting of Millais and other early Pre-Raphaelites to fears about cholera and Catholicism; he demonstrates how the body of…    
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Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/23/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism
The Retrogressive Argument
Archaism
Pathological Discourse
Rossetti, the Sexualized Woman, and the Late 1850s
The Fallen Woman: `Jenny' and Found
The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere, Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia
The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's Bocca Baciata
Rossetti and Male Desire
Pygmalion and Rossetti's `A Last Confession'
The Woman in the Mirror
Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body
The Aesthetic Conspiracy
The Problems of Femininity and Effeminization
The Theology of Intensity
The Androgynous Mind
The Pathology of Aestheticism
The Importance of Physiognomy
The Solitary Vice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism
The Retrogressive Argument
Archaism
Pathological Discourse
Rossetti, the Sexualized Woman, and the Late 1850s
The Fallen Woman: `Jenny' and Found
The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere, Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia
The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's Bocca Baciata
Rossetti and Male Desire
Pygmalion and Rossetti's `A Last Confession'
The Woman in the Mirror
Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body
The Aesthetic Conspiracy
The Problems of Femininity and Effeminization
The Theology of Intensity
The Androgynous Mind
The Pathology of Aestheticism
The Importance of Physiognomy
The Solitary Vice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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