Woman - image - text : readings in pre-Raphaelite art and literature

Author(s)

• Pearce, Lynne

Bibliographic Information

Woman - image - text : readings in pre-Raphaelite art and literature

Lynne Pearce

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 150-157

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780745006314

Description

This critique of the portrayal of women in pre-Raphaelite art and its related literature covers artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and Burne-Jones. The human subjects of these portrayals are studied from the point of view of artist, painting, viewer and society. The heart-sick, sex-starved women depicted in many of the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for example, are set in a feminist reading context and the different ways in which different viewers react to "The Lady of Shallott" (by Waterhouse) are explained with reference to a feminist schemata.

Table of Contents

• Towards a theory of gendered reading
• the virgin - solid frames
• Beatice - hazy outlines
• Mariana - gorgeous surfaces
• the Lady of Shalott - cracking the mirror
• Isabella - sharp differences
• Madeline - ghostly signifiers
• Guenevere - emergent heroines
• Venus - Pyrrhic victory
• gendered reading in practice.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780745006321

Description

This critique of the portrayal of women in pre-Raphaelite art and its related literature covers artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and Burne-Jones. The human subjects of these portrayals are studied from the point of view of artist, painting, viewer and society. The heart-sick, sex-starved women depicted in many of the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for example, are set in a feminist reading context and the different ways in which different viewers react to "The Lady of Shallott" (by Waterhouse) are explained with reference to a feminist schemata.

Table of Contents

• Towards a theory of gendered reading
• the virgin - solid frames
• Beatrice - hazy outlines
• Mariana - gorgeous surfaces
• the Lady of Shalott - cracking the mirror
• Isabella - sharp differences
• Madeline - ghostly signifiers
• Guenevere - emergent heroines
• Venus - Pyrrhic victory
• gendered reading in practice.

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Details

• NCID: BA13668223
• ISBN:
  • 0745006310
  • 0745006329
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Hemel Hempstead
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 161 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 702.33