TY - BOOK AU - Latham,David TI - Haunted Texts: Studies in Pre-Raphaelitism SN - 9780802036629 AV - NX543 U1 - 700/.941/09034 PY - 2003///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Arts, British KW - 19th century KW - Pre-Raphaelitism KW - Great Britain KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - Begun by young rebels committed to revolutionizing the creative arts, Pre-Raphaelitism has moved from the margins of nineteenth-century art and literature to the vanguard of interdisciplinary studies. The term is now used to denote the Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent movements in art, culture, and literature, but it has remained as difficult to define as ever. Haunted Texts attempts to meet the challenge of defining and illustrating the full spectrum of Pre-Raphaelitism.Working with a diverse range of Pre-Raphaelite poetry, painting, decorative arts, book illustration, and political prose, the ten contributors to Haunted Texts pursue the critical strategies of such leading figures as Christina Rossetti and Dante Rossetti, William Morris and Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and Aubrey Beardsley. The essays consider the bibliocritical issues of archival research concerning the personal letters and diaries of the Rossetti family; the technological issues that challenge conventional methods of scholarship; the gender issues concerning constructions of identity derived from the changing conceptions of love, desire, anxiety, and brotherhood; and the interdisciplinary cultural issues that transgress the borders of high art and popular culture.Haunted Texts pays tribute to the scholarship of Professor William Fredeman who devoted much of his career since the 1950s to establishing a critical foundation that would enable future scholars to define their understanding of the complexity of Pre-Raphaelitism UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442675636 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442675636/original ER -