Victorian Contexts Literature and the Visual Arts [Paperback]

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Introduction - Carlyle's Fire-Baptism - The Fallen Woman - Commodity Culture in Dickens and Browning - George Eliot and the Horizons of Expectation - Hopkins as Poetic Innovator - The Art of Henry James - Notes - IndexMURRAY ROSTON is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He
also holds a permanent appointment as Adjunct Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches frequently.