Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts

Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts
ISBN-10
1349139866
ISBN-13
9781349139866
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
1996-09-30
Publisher
Springer
Author
Murray Roston

Description

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.

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