The Nineteenth Century

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Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities

Published 18 June 2014

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.