British Literature Since 1800 After Victoria: Modernism
British Literature Since 1800 After Victoria: Modernism
Prominent Victorian literary trends In addition to the critical realism of Dickens, Gaskell,Trollope,and Eliot and the Gothic novel of Bronte and Walpole,the Victorian Age also spawned the following literary trends: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which you should already associate with Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti) -Aestheticism
Prominent Victorian literary trends • In addition to the critical realism of Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, and Eliot and the Gothic novel of Bronte and Walpole, the Victorian Age also spawned the following literary trends: – The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which you should already associate with Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti) – Aestheticism
The Pre-Raphaelites In 1848,a group of English artists organized the “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.” In poetry as well as painting,the Pre- Raphaelites turned away from the growing materialism of industrialized England. They sought refuge,through literary symbolism and imagery,in the beauty and comparative simplicity of the medieval world. In the works of the Italian painters prior to Raphael,they found a happy innocence of style that they tried to imitate
The Pre-Raphaelites • In 1848, a group of English artists organized the “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.” • In poetry as well as painting, the PreRaphaelites turned away from the growing materialism of industrialized England. • They sought refuge, through literary symbolism and imagery, in the beauty and comparative simplicity of the medieval world. • In the works of the Italian painters prior to Raphael, they found a happy innocence of style that they tried to imitate
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The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelites The ideals of the group of painters were taken over by a literary movement which included Daniel Gabriel Rossetti (a famous poet and painter),his sister Cristina Rossetti,and Algernon Swinburne. Characteristics of their poetry: -A nostalgia for medievalism -Pictorial realism with symbolic overtones -The unions of flesh/spirit and sexuality/religion ·Rossetti''s“Goblin Market'”and her brother's“The Blessed Damozel"are examples of this style
The Pre-Raphaelites • The ideals of the group of painters were taken over by a literary movement which included Daniel Gabriel Rossetti (a famous poet and painter), his sister Cristina Rossetti, and Algernon Swinburne. • Characteristics of their poetry: – A nostalgia for medievalism – Pictorial realism with symbolic overtones – The unions of flesh/spirit and sexuality/religion • Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” and her brother’s “The Blessed Damozel” are examples of this style