Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts Contributor(s): Roston, Murray (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814774857 ISBN-13: 9780814774854 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: 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 once and for all, with imaginative and refreshing essays on the similarities and shared themes of the literature, paintings, 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". |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Crafts & Hobbies - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Dewey: 820.900 |
LCCN: 96033091 |
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.36" W x 9.46" (1.23 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Roston, Murray: - Murray Roston is Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and has been a visiting professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia. He is also the author of Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts (NYU). |