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Modern Humanities Research Association - Yearbook of English Studies Vol. 40
The Arts in Victorian Literature
Guest-Edited by Stefano Evangelista and Catherine Maxwell
The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. They examine the representation, treatment, or discussion of the arts in Victorian literary texts, the interchange between literary and other art forms, the creative dialogue between practices of writing, reading, viewing, and hearing, and analysis of how the arts inform the work of particular literary figures. Those figures include canonical writers such as Dickens, Tennyson, Ruskin, Hawthorne, George Eliot, Swinburne, and Hardy, and less well-known writers such as John Addington Symonds, Arthur Symons, and Rosa Newmarch. Walter Pater is an informing presence while Vernon Lee emerges as a major commentator. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period.
CONTENTS: Luisa Calè, Dickens Extra-Illustrated: Heads and Scenes in Monthly Parts (The Case of Nicholas Nickleby); Jonah Siegel, Display Time: Art, Disgust, and the Returns of the Crystal Palace; Hilary Fraser, Women and the Art of Fiction; Patricia Pulham, ‘Of marble men and maidens’: Sin, Sculpture, and Perversion in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun; Phyllis Weliver, George Eliot and the Prima Donna’s ‘Script’; Colin Cruise, ‘Sick-sad dreams’: Burne-Jones and Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; Elizabeth Helsinger, Song’s Fictions; Stefano Evangelista, Swinburne’s Galleries; Lene Østermark-Johansen, Caught between Gautier and Baudelaire: Walter Pater and the Death of Sculpture; Andrew Eastham, Walter Pater’s Acoustic Space: ‘The School of Giorgione’, Dionysian Anders-streben, and the Politics of Soundscape; Catherine Maxwell, Whistlerian Impressionism and the Venetian Variations of Vernon Lee, John Addington Symonds, and Arthur Symons; Jane Thomas, Icons of Desire: The Classical Statue in Later Victorian Literature; Shafquat Towheed, ‘Music is not merely for musicians’: Vernon Lee’s musical reading and response; Philip Ross Bullock, ‘Lessons in Sensibility’: Rosa Newmarch, Music Appreciation and the Aesthetic Cultivation of the Self
ISSN: 306-2473
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