The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Rossetti His Life and Works - Volume 16 (Hardcover)

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This, Waugh's first published book, marked the centenary of the birth of the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Waugh was fascinated by the bohemian lives of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, and by his own family connection with them (William Holman Hunt had married, successively, two cousins of his grandfather). Rossetti is both compassionate towards its subject and critical of his self-destructive nature. The incisive analysis of Rossetti's painterly techniques contributed to the resurgence of public interest in Rossetti's art and poetry. The biography was also an early expression of Waugh's lifelong interest in narrative art, and laid the foundations for his own belief in the importance of the spiritual as well as the aesthetic vision of the artist. Although Rossetti was hastily compiled, it is nevertheless elegant and witty.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
Release date:	September 2017
Authors:	Evelyn Waugh
Editors:	Michael G. Brennan
Dimensions:	143 x 222 x 144mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-968357-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > Pre-Raphaelite art Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre Promotions
LSN:	0-19-968357-3
Barcode:	9780199683574

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