Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 445 g
Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry, and Criticism
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 445 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-818257-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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 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.
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- List 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
- Index
