Journal article
Pre-Raphaelitism, D. G. Rossetti, and the Morris Circle
Victorian poetry, Vol.59(3), pp.348-387
09/22/2021
DOI: 10.1353/vp.2021.0023
Abstract
[...]could the girl depicted as wearing a woman's red dress be a child sex worker rather than a "caregiver"?) They then contrast Brown's painting with Elizabeth Siddall's poem "Lord, May I Come," allegedly written just before her death, and conclude that Siddall reverses convention and gender expectations through attention to her inner self as she resolves "to endure grief though close attention [to] the surrounding landscape as evocative of the world to come" (p. 36). By contrast, they note the centrality of music and sound to Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics, its kinship to recitation and community, and the importance of its characteristic "hybridity over bifurcating forms." [...]as poetic painters, Pre-Raphaelite artists broadened the definition of art to include criticism and interpretation, so that their narrativized paintings cross generic boundaries. Here Holmes notes that the separation of soul from body is used to portray homosexual love, as in John Tupper's accompanying poem in The Germ, which affirms the women's love as "married souls-unmarried here," for love "is of the spirit, clear / Of earth and dress and sex." Arseneau cites Maura Ives's interesting observation that this abridged Goblin Market: A Cantata removed many of the features that have interested modern critics, including the explicitly sexual nature of the temptation, the close identification of the two sisters, and the final reintegration into society of a redeemed Laura; the cantata thus-"with Christina Rossetti's explicit approval-revises, remediates, and interprets Christina's masterpiece poem" (p. 171).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pre-Raphaelitism, D. G. Rossetti, and the Morris Circle
- Creators
- Florence Boos
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Victorian poetry, Vol.59(3), pp.348-387
- Publisher
- West Virginia University
- DOI
- 10.1353/vp.2021.0023
- ISSN
- 0042-5206
- eISSN
- 1530-7190
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/22/2021
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398054802771
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