's The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin (Penguin PDF

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The Pre-Raphaelite move begun in 1848, and skilled its heyday within the 1860s and 1870s. prompted via the then little-known Keats and Blake, in addition to Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the phrases of Antony Harrison), and popularized the idea ofl'art pour l'art - paintings for art's sake. the place Victorian realist novels explored the grit and dirt of the commercial Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems targeting extra summary subject matters of romantic love, creative proposal and sexuality. Later they attracted Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest Dowson, let alone Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats.

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The almost excruciating balance of his sentences leveraged by the two uses of the word ‘‘still’’ suggests the difficulty of the transition from one psychological identification to the other. ’’ Still, Ruskin does finally own that he is himself 11 Luytens, The Ruskins and the Grays, p. 78 (italics in original). Reading honeymoons 11 ‘‘saddened’’ by ‘‘little things’’ in his parents; it is this confession that initiates a discourse of self-denial. ’’ The passive ‘‘planned’’ disguises the agency of John and his parents while committing Effie to acquiescence.

30 Victorian honeymoons and indecision: the half smile and the half turn that signal, perhaps, not so much doubt as hesitation. Although in this case it is the father who most acutely feels the loss in this exemplary honeymoon narrative, other advice books use the same moment of departure to enter in more detail into the mind of the bride as she leaves her family.

So far we have looked at both the Ruskin and the Wemyss wedding nights as if they took place outside of time and place; in other words, as if they did not take place at all. This is easy to do, precisely because the ideology of the honeymoon produces an illusion of the couple in a world apart. , Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990); and Stephen Copley 12 Victorian honeymoons relation of the touristic gaze and the objects of that gaze.

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