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Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvAnne Woolley

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A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated, and certain of their texts are compared with hers to discuss interplay between erotic and spiritual love, the ballad tradition, nineteenth-century feminism, and the Romantic concept of the conjoined physical and spectral body. Siddal’s artwork is used to introduce each chapter, while other Pre-Raphaelite paintings illuminate the texts and further the inter-disciplinary philosophy of the Brotherhood. This important and stimulating book focuses on the intrinsic merit of Siddal’s poetics whilst advocating a research method that could have multiple applications elsewhere.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-25
Mått138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor296
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526178923

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'Woolley robustly engages with Siddal’s strange, intense lyrical ballads...'The Critic'This critical study of Siddal’s life and poetry is hugely significant in our reassessment and re-understanding of Victorian women writers. A voice that has been forgotten and seen as a morbid footnote in the shadow of her husband has emerged as a poetess and artist of the same distinction as her contemporaries and worthy of closer critical attention.'BAVS Newsletter'This book aids the recovery of Siddal as a poet and artist and provides a multitude of perspectives that would prove a useful read to any Pre-Raphaelite researcher or Siddal fanatic.'PRS Review'Woolley covers a lot of ground and reveals a great deal about Siddal’s life along with insightful analysis of the poems.'The Victorian Web