Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities : Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature

Amelia Yeates

ISBN 10: 1409455580 / ISBN 13: 9781409455585

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors to Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities examine the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, William Bell Scott, William Holman Hunt, among others.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities : Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409455580
• ISBN 13: 9781409455585
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 165H x 23D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 165 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams

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Synopsis

Drawing on recent theoretical developments in gender and men’s studies, Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities shows how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors take up the multiple versions of masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s paintings and poetry, masculine violence in William Morris’s late romances, nineteenth-century masculinity and the medical narrative in Ford Madox Brown’s Cromwell on His Farm, accusations of ’perversion’ directed at Edward Burne-Jones’s work, performative masculinity and William Bell Scott’s frescoes, the representations of masculinity in Pre-Raphaelite illustration, aspects of male chastity in poetry and art, Tannhäuser as a model for Victorian manhood, and masculinity and British imperialism in Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the plurality of masculinities that pervade the art and literature of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

About the Author

Amelia Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Art History in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Serena Trowbridge is Lecturer in the School of English at Birmingham City University, UK.