Title The pre-Raphaelite body : fear and desire in painting, poetry, and criticism / J. B. Bullen

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents I. The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism. i. The Retrogressive Argument. ii. Archaism. iii. Pathological Discourse -- II. Rossetti, the Sexualized Woman, and the Late 1850s. i. The Fallen Woman: 'Jenny' and Found. ii. The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere, Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia. iii. The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's Bocca baciata -- III. Rossetti and Male Desire. i. Pygmalion and Rossetti's 'A Last Confession'. ii. The Woman in the Mirror -- IV. Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body. i. The Aesthetic Conspiracy. ii. The Problems of Femininity and Effeminization. iii. The Theology of Intensity. iv. The Androgynous Mind. v. The Pathology of Aestheticism. vi. The Importance of Physiognomy. vii. The Solitary Vice Bibliography Bibliography: pages 221-241 Subject Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. Arts, English. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) Pre-Raphaelitism. Women in art. LC no. 97027696 ISBN 0198182570

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