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OverviewPre-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 the sexualized female became an object of obsessive fascination in the painting and poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris; he locates the writing of Swinburne and Prater in the context of the debate over the `Woman Question', and he shows how the responses to the `Aesthetic' painting of Burne-Jones were conditioned by the sexual psychopathology of mid nineteenth-century mental science. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. B. Bullen (Professor in the Department of English, Professor in the Department of English, University of Reading)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.445kg ISBN: 9780198182573ISBN 10: 0198182570 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 January 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part I. The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism 1: The Retrogressive Argument 2: Archaism 3: Pathological Discourse Part II. Rossetti, the Sexualized Woman, and the Late 1850s 1: The Fallen Woman: `Jenny' and Found 2: The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere, Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia 3: The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's Bocca Baciata Part III. Rossetti and Male Desire 1: Pygmalion and Rossetti's `A Last Confession' 2: The Woman in the Mirror Part IV. Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body 1: The Aesthetic Conspiracy 2: The Problems of Femininity and Effeminization 3: The Theology of Intensity 4: The Androgynous Mind 5: The Pathology of Aestheticism 6: The Importance of Physiognomy 7: The Solitary Vice Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsThere is no doubt about the impeccable scholarship of Prof. J B Bullen in this book. ... There are fine pieces of penetrating reading of key texts, extensive and accurate bibliographical data, and very competent nuggets of Victorian lore All this basic and reliable information is precious for the students discovering the period and what has been written about it. ,,, the book could easily be used for a foundation course on Pre-Raphaelitism ... should also be read by fellow specialists to spark off some interesting and enjoyable debates. Jean-Marie Baissus/Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens No 48 (1998) This book is a study of art criticism and the depiction of the human body, rather than cultural gender constructions ... Bullen ... provides a challenge to the standard conceptions of medievalism in this period that can only enhance our understanding of this form of stylistic expression ... present new ideas and models that must be integrated into histories of these artists to more fully understand their productions, cultural milieu, and personal and reception histories. Jason M. Rosenfeld, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies an important survey of discourses of Victorian malaise, a case-study in the topography of discontent ... Bullen's elegantly written book reveals a lexicon of discomfort with bodily images which violated conventional modes of visual representation, and which seemed, in their degeneracy, to endanger the nation's well-being. This is an illuminating study, an important source-text, a volume which throws light on cultural history, sexual mores, the formation of discourses on the aesthetic, and the purchase of culturally constructed gender roles on the reception of avant-garde Victorian paintin and poetry. Francis O'Gorman, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, The Review of English Studies, vol 50, no 199, 1999 `There is no doubt about the impeccable scholarship of Prof. J B Bullen in this book. ... There are fine pieces of penetrating reading of key texts, extensive and accurate bibliographical data, and very competent nuggets of Victorian lore All this basic and reliable information is precious for the students discovering the period and what has been written about it. ,,, the book could easily be used for a foundation course on Pre-Raphaelitism ... should also be read by fellow specialists to spark off some interesting and enjoyable debates.' Jean-Marie Baissus/Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens No 48 (1998) `This book is a study of art criticism and the depiction of the human body, rather than cultural gender constructions ... Bullen ... provides a challenge to the standard conceptions of medievalism in this period that can only enhance our understanding of this form of stylistic expression ... present new ideas and models that must be integrated into histories of these artists to more fully understand their productions, cultural milieu, and personal and reception histories.' Jason M. Rosenfeld, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies `an important survey of discourses of Victorian malaise, a case-study in the topography of discontent ... Bullen's elegantly written book reveals a lexicon of discomfort with bodily images which violated conventional modes of visual representation, and which seemed, in their degeneracy, to endanger the nation's well-being. This is an illuminating study, an important source-text, a volume which throws light on cultural history, sexual mores, the formation of discourses on the aesthetic, and the purchase of culturally constructed gender roles on the reception of avant-garde Victorian paintin and poetry.' Francis O'Gorman, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, The Review of English Studies, vol 50, no 199, 1999 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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