Drawing on recent theoretical developments in gender and men s studies, Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities shows how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors take up the multiple versions of masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti s paintings and poetry, masculine violence in William Morris s late romances, nineteenth-century masculinity and the medical narrative in Ford Madox Brown s Cromwell on His Farm, accusations of perversion directed at Edward Burne-Jones s work, performative masculinity and William Bell Scott s frescoes, the representations of masculinity in Pre-Raphaelite illustration, aspects of male chastity in poetry and art, Tannh er as a model for Victorian manhood, and masculinity and British imperialism in Holman Hunt s The Light of the World. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the plurality of masculinities that pervade the art and literature of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- ISBN13 9781351553346
- Publish Date 5 July 2017 (first published 18 June 2014)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 September 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook
- Pages 264
- Language English