Summary: | Some of the 14 essays in this collection are case studies of Pre- Raphaelite visual and literary works. Others explore meanings of works by Pre-Raphaelites such as John Everett Morris, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Joanna Boyce, and Edward Burne-Jones. Topics include gender, class, ethnicity, national and regional identity, patronage, the position of the professional woman artist, the nude, images of women and the Victorian cult of death. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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