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The poems of Elizabeth Siddal in context
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
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129,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 09.03.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526143860 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 296 |
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Beschreibungen
A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated, and certain of their texts are compared with hers to discuss interplay between erotic and spiritual love, the ballad tradition, nineteenth-century feminism, and the Romantic concept of the conjoined physical and spectral body. Siddal’s artwork is used to introduce each chapter, while other Pre-Raphaelite paintings illuminate the texts and further the inter-disciplinary philosophy of the Brotherhood. This important and stimulating book focuses on the intrinsic merit of Siddal’s poetics whilst advocating a research method that could have multiple applications elsewhere.
Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.
Introduction: Siddal, Christina Rossetti and the literary context
1 Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the duality of love
2 Siddal, Swinburne and the ballad tradition
3 Siddal, Tennyson, Ruskin and the feminist question
4 Siddal, Keats and Pre-Raphaelite relations of power
Conclusion: Contextualising Elizabeth Siddal
1 Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the duality of love
2 Siddal, Swinburne and the ballad tradition
3 Siddal, Tennyson, Ruskin and the feminist question
4 Siddal, Keats and Pre-Raphaelite relations of power
Conclusion: Contextualising Elizabeth Siddal
Anne Woolley is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at Keele University
This significant new book considers all of Elizabeth Siddal’s poems as part of the on-going retrieval and re-evaluation of nineteenth-century women poets. Perhaps more importantly, it does so with reference to the work of male poets who were either known to her, or were a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated; Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats. Comparison is also made with female counterparts, including Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Romantic poets Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon, but in shifting the emphasis towards her male counterparts, Siddal is afforded long-overdue augmented critical reception and an enhanced reputation based firmly on her merits as a writer rather than on her already well-documented life history. This volume addresses various thematic aspects of her work and locates it in a contemporary cultural context, illuminating philosophies shared with other poets and enabling alternative readings of texts that at first glance can appear slight, self-indulgent and derivative. The dualism between earthly and spiritual love is explored through her lyrics and sonnets taken from Rossetti’s
<i>The House of Life</i> sequence. Siddal and Swinburne both engaged with the ballad tradition and Siddal used it to lament the inability of women to express themselves. The nineteenth-century ‘woman question’ is examined via ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’ by Ruskin and lyrics taken from
<i>The Princess</i> by Tennyson, and the paradoxical conjunction of physical and spectral body is considered through Keats’s
<i>Lamia</i>,
<i>Isabella</i> and
<i>The Eve of St Agnes</i>. Paintings by Millais, Hunt and Rossetti, and Siddal’s own artwork, are used as informative
<i>entrées</i> to each chapter, making this a valuable and stimulating addition to studies of the Pre-Raphaelite canon.
<i>The House of Life</i> sequence. Siddal and Swinburne both engaged with the ballad tradition and Siddal used it to lament the inability of women to express themselves. The nineteenth-century ‘woman question’ is examined via ‘Of Queens’ Gardens’ by Ruskin and lyrics taken from
<i>The Princess</i> by Tennyson, and the paradoxical conjunction of physical and spectral body is considered through Keats’s
<i>Lamia</i>,
<i>Isabella</i> and
<i>The Eve of St Agnes</i>. Paintings by Millais, Hunt and Rossetti, and Siddal’s own artwork, are used as informative
<i>entrées</i> to each chapter, making this a valuable and stimulating addition to studies of the Pre-Raphaelite canon.
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