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My Ladys Soul
Edited collection of Elizabeth Siddall's extant poems, including critical analysis, biographical commentary, and contextual material. Also features illustrations, some by Siddall herself.
Lizzie Siddal
The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. With many parallels in the modern-day world of art and fashion, this biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.
Over Her Dead Body
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs. The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
The (Mostly) Complete Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Discover the poignant and powerful voice of a forgotten Victorian poet in The (Mostly) Complete Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal. This beautifully produced hardback volume is the first popular edition to bring together all fifteen known, complete poems of Siddal (1829-1862), a significant figure in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who never saw her work published during her lifetime. Key Features: - Format and Size: This pocket-sized edition measures 4.15 x 5.8 inches, making it perfect for carrying everywhere in your purse, camera bag, or jacket pocket. - Victorian Elegance: The book features a debossed cover with gold foil lettering, harkening back to the beautiful books of the Victorian era. - Comprehensive Collection: Includes all fifteen known poems of Elizabeth Siddal, giving her words the space and attention they deserve to be appreciated. - Insightful Essay: Features an essay by award-winning writer and photographer Kyle Cassidy, who brought these poems together for this edition. - Companion Volume: Published as a companion to This is Only Earth, My Dear, a collection of photographs inspired by Siddal's poetry by Trillian Stars and Kyle Cassidy.
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central figures in the group: among others, the Rossettis, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. This is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms. The Companion explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, sexualized, infantalized, sickly, dead). Well-versed in the Italian masters, Wharton made special use of the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly its penchant for producing not portraits of individual women but instead icons onto whose bodies male desire is superimposed.
Vision and Difference
Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but als
