Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol.
Though their art has been intensely studied in numerous exhibitions and monographs over the last several decades, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) has never been wholeheartedly embraced, its critics finding the work amateurish, provincial, or representative f English bizarrerie. Editor Prettejohn states that one purpose of the 17 essays collected here is to establish the movement as the first modernist avant-garde, with all the elements of redefinition of tradition and purposeful assertion that the term suggests. --Journal