The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin
From Rossetti to Ruskin
$53.24
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2010
Summary
An anthology of the great and influential Pre-Raphaelite texts, selected and introduced by Dinah Roe
The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry ‘etherialized sensation’ (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion of l’art pour l’art - art for art’s sake. Where Victorian realist novels explored the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192406 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141192402 |
| Author: | Dinah Roe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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Dinah Roe
Dinah Roe is a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and a freelance writer whose interests include the nineteenth-century novel, Victorian poetry, and women’s writing. Born and raised in the United States, she holds degrees from Vassar College (USA) and University College London. She has written Christina Rossetti’s Faithful Imagination (2006), and is currently working on a book about the Rossetti family and their circle. She lives in London.
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