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Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Painter as Poet (Paperback)
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Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Painter as Poet (Paperback)
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A revolutionary figure throughout his career, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti's work provides a distinctly revolutionary lens through
which the Victorian period can be viewed. Suggesting that
Rossetti's work should be approached through his poetry, Brian
Donnelly argues that it is both inscribed by and inscribes the
development of verbal as well as visual culture in the Victorian
era. In his discussions of modernity, aestheticism, and material
culture, he identifies Rossetti as a central figure who helped
define the terms through which we approach the cultural productions
of this period. Donnelly begins by articulating a method for
reading Rossetti's poetry that highlights the intertextual
relations within and between the poetry and paintings. His
interpretations of such poems as the 'Mary's Girlhood' sonnets, the
sonnet sequence The House of Life, and 'The Orchard-Pit' in
relationship to paintings such as The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and
Ecce Ancilla Domini! shed light on Victorian ideals of femininity,
on consumer culture, and on the role of gender hierarchies in
Victorian culture. Situating Rossetti's poetry as the key to all of
his work, Donnelly also makes a case for its centrality in its
representation of the dominant discourses of the late Victorian
period: faith, sex, consumption, death, and the nature of
representation itself.
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