Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity

by Wendy Graham

Book Overview

Founded by a band of young iconoclasts, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood stunned Victorian England with its revaluation of culture and lifestyle. With Pre-Raphaelitism ascendant in the 1850s and canonical by the 1880s, the movement's refractory reception history is an object lesson in how avant-gardes burst upon the scene, dispense with their antagonistic posture, and become a mainstay of tradition. Wendy Graham traces the critical discourses that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231180209
• ISBN13: 9780231180207
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"