Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity
β Scribed by Wendy Graham
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 373
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Wendy Graham traces the critical discourses that shaped the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoodβs reception and continues to inform responses to them. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a new interpretation of the place of aesthetic counterculture in Victorian England.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Pre- Raphaelite Vanguard
2. Puff, Slash, Burn: Literary Celebrity
3. Fortuneβs Weal
4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Aesthetic Celebrity
5. Anonymous Journalism: The Fleshly School Controversy
6. Henry James and British Aestheticism
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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