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Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol)

Transfiguration

The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism

Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol)

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English
Oxford University Press
29 September 2016
Sculpture; Religious subjects depicted in art; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Christianity
Transfiguration explores the work of John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Walter Pater, treating in particular the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Pater's case, how the art of Christianity was contrasted with classical sculpture. Stephen Cheeke examines two related phenomena: idolatry (a false substitution, a sexual betrayal), and the poetics of transfiguration (to elevate or glorify subject matter not thought of as conventionally poetic, to praise). Central to the book is the question of the 'translation' of religion into art and aesthetics, a process which supposedly undergirds the advent of the museum age and makes possible the idea of a 'religion of art' as a phenomenon of late century Aestheticism. Such a phenomenon is prepared for, however, through the engagement with Christian painting and classical sculpture in the work of these four writers. All four thought carefully about the ways in which a particular mimetic impulse of 'making-live' in artworks could be connected to religious experience. This meant exploring the nature of the link between seeing and believing--visualising in order to conceive, to verify, but also in the sense of being acted upon by the visible. All four wrote about the great power of artworks to transfigure the objects of their attention. In each case, there emerges the possibility of a secret sexual knowledge hiding within, or lying on the other side of the sensuous knowledge of aesthesis. All four wondered whether this was inherently hostile to Christianity, or whether it may, finally, be an accommodation within it.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 221mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   414g
ISBN:   9780198757207
ISBN 10:   0198757204
Pages:   252
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: 'Strange Worship' 1: The Religion of Art in the Nineteenth Century 2: Transfiguration: The Story of a Masterpiece 3: Browning and the Problem of Raphael 4: 'All Great Art is Praise': Ruskin's 'Fra Lippo Lippi' 5: 'The Queen of Sheba Crash': Ruskin's Conversions 6: What Did Rossetti Believe? 7: Walter Pater's Indifference Afterword: Idolatry Bibliography

Stephen Cheeke is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. His previous books are Byron and Place: Literature, Translation, Nostalgia (2003) and Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (2008).

Reviews for Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism

Cheeke impressively traces the concept of transfiguration through a variety of writers in different cultures...This book will be of great interest to those who hope to gain more insight into the ways in which such writers, especially Ruskin and Browning, navigated aesthetics and religion. * John Paul M. Kanwit, Victorian Studies *


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