Signs for the Times: Symbolic Realism in the Mid-Victorian World

by Chris Brooks

Book Overview

First published in 1984. Signs for the Times explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature, painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels, prose writings, paintings and buildings, Chris Brooks establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to the Victorian creative imagination. He argues that the creative achievement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0048000302
• ISBN13: 9780048000309
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
• Length: 202 Pages