The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites

Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)

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Cambridge University Press
23 July 2012

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

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.

Edited by: Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9780521719315
ISBN 10: 0521719313
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 329
Publication Date: 23 July 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol.

Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites

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