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Signs for the times : symbolic realism in the mid-Victorian world

Title
Signs for the times : symbolic realism in the mid-Victorian world / Chris Brooks.
Author
Brooks, Chris.
Publication
London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1984.

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Description
xiv, 202 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
This book 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, the author establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to Victorian creative imagination. He argues that the creative achievement of the mid-nineteenth century needs to be seen far more as a whole than it has been previously, and that fundamental imaginative terms are common to art and architecture, and major theoretical writers. -- Publisher description.
Subject
  • Arts, British
  • Arts, Victorian > Great Britain
  • Realism in art
  • Symbolism in art
  • realism (artistic form of expression)
  • Arts, Victorian
  • Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
'Flame images': Carlyle and the symbolic reading of history -- 'The magic reel': metaphor and reality in "The old curiosity shop" -- 'What the waves were always saying': symbolic realism in "Dombey and son" and "David Copperfield" -- 'Bricked in on all sides': symbolic exemplification in "Bleak house" and "Hard Times" -- 'The prison of this lower world': reality and the transcendental in "Little Dorrit" -- 'Recalled to life': the Christian myth of "A tale of two cities" -- 'Our feverish contact fly': Arnold and the symbol in retreat -- 'Bona fide imitation': pictorial realism and "Modern painters" -- 'The world without eyelids': symbolic realism and pre-Raphaelite painting -- 'Things as they really are': four pre-Rahpaelite pictures -- "Functional and mystical': architectural meaning and Puginian gothic -- 'Making the building speak': symbolism and the gothic revival -- 'Without flow or continuity': the architectural semantic of William Butterfield.
ISBN
  • 0048000302
  • 9780048000309
LCCN
84006277
OCLC
  • ocm10711207
  • 10711207
  • SCSB-602087
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library