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Title

The Germ : origins and progenies of Pre-Raphaelite interart aesthetics / Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto.

Author

Spinozzi, Paola

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bizzotto, Elisa.

Description

xiv, 284 p., [13] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Aims to explain why claims about the autonomy and interrelatedness of the arts, expressed in the form of a provocative monthly journal, proved so influential as to be a source of inspiration for the "Oxford and Cambridge Magazine", "The Century Guild Hobby Horse", "The Yellow Book", "The Savoy", and even for Modernist periodicals.

Series Statement

Cultural interactions. Studies in the relationship between the arts ; v. 24

Uniform Title

Cultural interactions v. 24.

Subject

• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Germ (London, England : 1850)
• Pre-Raphaelitism > England
• Art and literature > England > History > 19th century
• Arts, English > 19th century
• Aesthetics, British > 19th century
• Periodicals > History > Great Britain > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-248) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: `A more enduring growth': Pre-Raphaelitism after the Pre-Raphaelites -- Pre-Raphaelitism in the Twenty-First Century -- ch. 1 Origins and Propagations -- Around The Germ -- Retracing The Germ(s) -- Bold Statements of Poetics -- About The Germ -- ch. 2 Biographical Perspective on The Germ -- Who and How -- Editor, Author, Biographer: William Michael Rossetti, Custodian of The Germ -- Tradition and Modernity: Frederic George Stephens -- Earnestness in Art: John Lucas Tupper -- `Something in him much beyond the commonplace': John Orchard -- One of the `Immortals': Coventry Patmore and the Pre-Raphaelites -- Dolce Stil Novo in the Victorian Age: Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Chiaro dell'Erma -- Aside: Ellen Alleyn, or, Christina Rossetti -- Major Minor Pre-Raphaelite: Thomas Woolner, Sculptor and Poet -- Romantic Mentor: William Bell Scott -- Officer and a Poet: Major Robert Calder Campbell -- `Hardly a writing man': James Collinson -- Lost Promise of the Brotherhood: Walter Howell Deverell -- True to History: Ford Madox Brown -- Before Raphael: William Holman Hunt and the Truth of Early Italian Painting -- ch. 3 Aesthetic Prose in The Germ: Moulding a Literary Mode -- Defining `Aesthetic Prose' -- `Hand and Soul' by D. G. Rossetti as the Prototype of Creative Aesthetic Prose -- Critical Aesthetic Prose -- ch. 4 Germinal Poetical Imageries: From Pre-Raphaelitism to the Fin de Siecle and Modernism -- Germinal Poetry -- Nature Transfixed -- Shapes of Love -- Thoughts about Finitude and Transcendence -- Interart Osmosis: `Sonnets for Pictures' by D. G. Rossetti -- ch. 5 Legacies: The Germ as the Prototype of the Artists' Magazine -- Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) -- Germ as a Model for Fin de Siecle Little Magazines: The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884-1892), The Yellow Book (1894-1897), and The Savoy (1896) -- Germ in the Twentieth Century.

ISBN

• 9783034302982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 3034302983 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012005928

OCLC

• 778857593
• SCSB-12670871

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library