Woman/Image/Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature (THEORY/CULTURE) - Hardcover

Pearce, Lynne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802059805 ISBN 13: 9780802059802

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1991

Synopsis

This critique of the portrayal of women in pre-Raphaelite art and its related literature covers artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and Burne-Jones. The human subjects of these portrayals are studied from the point of view of artist, painting, viewer and society. The heart-sick, sex-starved women depicted in many of the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for example, are set in a feminist reading context and the different ways in which different viewers react to "The Lady of Shallott" (by Waterhouse) are explained with reference to a feminist schemata.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802059805
• ISBN 13: 9780802059802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 383