What, if any, is the relationship between Charles Dickens and
the decorative arts? Between Henry James and Art Nouveau? Between
the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the paintings of the
Impressionists?
Recent trends in scholarship have begun to reassess the
assumption that the arts of painting and literature are too
fundamentally disparate to permit a fruitful comparison between the
two. In Victorian Contexts, Murray Roston puts that assumption to
rest with imaginative and refreshing essays on the similarities and
shared themes of the literature, painting, architecture, and crafts
of the nineteenth century. Explaining the value of such an
intertextual approach, he argues that in every generation there is
a central complex of inherited assumptions and urgent contemporary
concerns to which each creative artist responds in his or her
individual way.
Eminently readable, Victorian Contexts is accessible to general
readers as well as scholars of literature, the visual arts, and
nineteenth-century culture.
General
Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 1996 |
First published: |
December 1996 |
Authors: |
Murray Roston
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
200 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8147-7485-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8147-7485-7 |
Barcode: |
9780814774854 |
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