Pre-raphaelite

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A presentation of the contemporary human condition in Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach and William Holman Hunt’s Our English Coasts, 1852 (Strayed Sheep) by Alexandra Mayson	More than just lyrically and visually pleasing icons of their age, ‘Dover Beach’ and ‘Our English Coasts’ also invoke the contemporary human...	Pre-raphaelite, Matthew Arnold, 19th century	view
Christ in the everyday nineteenth-century experience: examining a collection of daily prayers and a painting of Jesus by Celia Jarvis	John Keble and William Holman Hunt produced work at the bookends of a century renowned for its scientific and industrial progress. Both men,...	William Holman Hunt, Pre-raphaelite, Victorian Culture, Christianity, Faith	view
Friend or Foe: How far were sororal relations depicted positively in nineteenth-century England? Emily Lam	Sisterhood was commonly used in nineteenth century literature as an instrument to achieve a conventional end or to advance a romantic storyline;...	19th century, sororal, sisterhood, Pre-raphaelite	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
Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian ideals outside ironwork: William Morris’ Red House and William Holman Hunt’s Isabella and the Pot of Basil exemplify craftsmanship in an age of technology, Tori Reimann	Against the backdrop of technological advancements of the day, artist William Morris’ architecture in Red House and artist William Holman Hunt’s...	Pre-raphaelite, Victorian Culture, 19th century	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
The Angel in the House and Fallen Women: Assigning Women their Places in Victorian Society, Sarah Kuhl	This article juxtaposes Coventry Patmore’s poem ‘The Angel in the House’ and William Holman Hunt’s painting ‘The Awakening Conscience’, examining...	Pre-raphaelite, 19th century, Victorian, Gender, feminism, Poetry	view
The role of female vampires in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Vampire by Sir Philip Burne-Jones by Gavin Fiddler	This article is an examination of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, Dracula, and Sir Philip Burne-Jones’s controversial work, The Vampire...	19th century, Pre-raphaelite	view
William Ewart Gladstone in Two Perspectives: John Everett Millais’ Private Portrait and John Tenniel’s Public Political Cartoons, Ian M Williams	Three pieces of work by John Tenniel in the genre of political cartoons, and a John Everett Millais oil-oncanvas portrait commissioned by Christ...	Victorian Culture, cartoons, caricature, Portraiture, Pre-raphaelite, British politics	view

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