Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Covetousness and commodification: the eroticised female body and cultural representations of death by Natasha Shirman	The Victorian cult of mourning meant that the ritual of death became a visual affair, which placed women firmly at its centre. These gendered...	mourning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Victorian Culture	view
Finding and Imprisoning Prostitutes in Victorian England: How Double Standards of Morality Led to Possible Violations of the Constitution by Patricia Penido Salles	Abstract: In the 1860s, Parliament passed three Contagious Diseases Acts to control the spread of venereal disease amongst the armed forces. The...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Victorian, 19th century, Josephine Butler, Contagious Diseases Acts	view
From gentility to genitalia: the koto, a Japanese writing box and the transformative power of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Timothy Hanson	In the latter half of the nineteenth century, a wave of interest in Japan that was comparable to Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, broke upon...	Japonisme, Pre-raphaelite, Dante Gabriel Rossetti	view
La Vita Nuova: Examining the theme of love in two of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s most famous works, the poem, The Blessed Damozel and the painting, Beata Beatrix, Andre R. Taylor-Morris	This essay will trace, briefly, Rossetti’s engagement with, and treatment of love. The Blessed Damozel was composed well before the death of...	Pre-raphaelite, Victorian Culture, 19th century, Poetry, love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Painting	view
Mirrors Of The Soul: Reflections Of Sexual Identity In Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Hand And Soul’ And Woman Combing Her Hair, Travis Piper	As an artist and man Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was mesmerized by women, focusing consistently on female images and identity throughout...	19th century, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sexuality, Gender	view
Taming the Goddess: Managing male fear and desire in late Victorian England: Astarte Syriaca (1877) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and She (1887) by H. Rider Haggard by Brian Holland	Fear and sexual desire have often gone hand in hand, but Victorian men were particularly prone to the affliction. Each of these...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-raphaelite, Victorian	view
That mirror gave back all her loveliness’: Female Beauty and Power in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Lady Lilith’ and Christina Rossetti’s ‘In an Artist’s Studio’ by Jasmin Monkcom	Abstract: The focus of this article will be the construction of female beauty in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting Lady Lilith (1867) and...	19th century, Victorian, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, desire	view
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Online archive of Rossetti’s works, edited by leading Romantic scholar Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia).	Nineteenth-century, Victorian, Poetry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti	view
The Other Side: Themes of Swedenborgian-spiritualism in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel by Rosanna Hayes	This article will explore two expressions of Swedenborgian-Spiritualism in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting The Blessed Damozel and...	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poetry, Death	view
‘Unsex Me Here’1: Mythical women and the threat of the femme fatale in the Victorian era, as seen in John Singer Sargent’s Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Body’s Beauty’ (c.1866), Kathryn Waters	This article will consider depictions of two different mythical women in the Victorian period, namely the characters of Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth...	Victorian Culture, Pre-raphaelite, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 19th century, Gender	view

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