Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings

Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings is an international collection of essays written by seasoned and emerging scholars. This book explores, discusses, and provides new perspectives on Pre-Raphaelite paintings inspired by poems and poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, ranging from the inauguration of the movement in 1848 until the end of the nineteenth century. Through a textual and visual journey, this work reflects an innovative approach to Pre-Raphaelite art and Victorian poetry. The rationale in collating this collection of essays is to suggest new approaches for studies in Victorian visual and verbal art. This collection urges new ways of looking at Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry and its dynamic impact on the changing face of Victorian artistic practices through the second half of the nineteenth century, re-evaluating the extent to which this relatively short-lived movement influenced diverse writers and artists and their work. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian poetry and painting, and the intersection between them.

Sophia Andres is Professor of English and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She is the author of The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries (winner of the 2006 SCMLA Book Award). Brian Donnelly is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Painter as Poet (2015).

Plates - Notes on Contributors - Acknowledgments - Sophia Andres/Brian Donnelly: Pre-Raphaelite Poetic Paintings: Transcending Spatial and Temporal Boundaries - Serena Trowbridge: Gender and Space in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of "The Eve of St Agnes" - Divya Athmanathan: "Good pictures ... are always another poem": Mapping Spatialities in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" and Elizabeth Siddal's The Lady of Shalott - Dante Alighieri's Dreams in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Paintings - Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: "A Dramatis Personae of the Soul": Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine - Martina John: " Portrait of the Artist as an Italian Poet: Rossetti's Dante - Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems in Paintings: Photography, Realism and Painting - Enrique Olivares: Interpretation and Representation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Sonnets for Pictures" - Daniel Brown: "They that would look on her": Jane Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and "The Portrait" - Modernity's Kaleidoscopic Views - Amelia Yeates: Poetic Narrative in William Morris's and Edward Burne- Jones's Pygmalion Project - Sarah Banschbach Valles: Aestheticism and Violent Delight in the Sister Arts of A. C. Swinburne and Simeon Solomon - Anne Koval: From Poet to Painter: The Aestheticism of Swinburne and Whistler - Sophia Andres: Conclusion: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of Classical Texts - Bibliography - Index.