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10 -- Introductions; syllabus review; MLA guidelines; Introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites (figures, themes, dates) 17 -- Reading: Cecil Lang, Introduction to The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle (xi-xxix); John Ruskin, "from Pre-Raphaelitism"; Robert Buchanan, "The Fleshly School of Poetry"; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Stealthy School of Criticism"; William Mallock, "How to Make a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem" [Except for the Introduction by Lang, all of these texts are available through Polk Library E-Reserve.] |
24 --
Meet
in Radford Computer Lab
Reading:
Swinburne, "Genesis" and "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell";
Meredith, "Lucifer in Starlight"
Morris, "The Earthly
Paradise"
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October 1 -- DG Rossetti:"The Blessed Damozel," "My Sister's Sleep," "Mary's Girlhood," "Ave"; Christina Rossetti: "Monna Innominata," "Rest," "Ash Wednesday," "Sleeping at Last," "De Profundis"; Images: Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850); The Blessed Damozel (1875); The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849); The Annunciation (1861) |
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-- Christina Rossetti,"Goblin Market"; Charles Algernon Swinburne,
"Anactoria"
Images:
DG Rossetti's illustration
for "Goblin Market"; Alma Tadema, Sappho
and Alcaeus (1881)
15
-- DG
Rossetti: "Jenny"; Robin Sheets, "Pornography and Art:
The Case of Jenny"
Images: Rossetti, Found
(1854) ; Ford Madox Brown, Take
Your Son, Sir! (1857)
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22 -- George Meredith: "Modern Love"; William Morris: "The Defence of Guenevere," "King Arthur's Tomb" and "Praise of My Lady"; Images: Edward Burne-Jones, Merlin and Nimüe (1861), The Beguiling of Merlin (1874), Morgan Le Fay, and The Merciful Knight (1863); Arthur Hughes, Sir Galahad (1865); William Morris, Guinevere (1857) 29 -- Radford Computer Lab: Midterm Exam |
November
5 --
Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Elizabeth Siddal
Criticism:
Rossetti Images: Elizabeth
Siddal (1854), Portrait
of Elizabeth Siddal (1855), Before
the Battle (1857), Beata
Beatrix (1864-70), La
Ghirlandata (1873), Monna
Vanna (1866), Proserpine/Persephone
(1874), Lady
Lilith (1864), Reverie(1868),
Mariana(1870),
Water
Willow (1871); Astarte
Syriaca (1871), Pandora(1879),
Siddal Images: The
Quest of the Holy Grail (1855), Before
the Battle (1858), Self-Portrait,
The
Holy Family
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12 -- Paintings of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Holman Hunt. Criticism: Albert Boime, "William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat: Rite of Forgiveness/Transference of Blame" (The Art Bulletin 84.1, 94-114, 2002). Burne-Jones Images: A Musical Angel (1878), Love Among the Ruins (1894), The Annunciation (1879), The March Marigold (1870), The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon (1866), Saint George and the Dragon (1866), The Wizard (1896) . . . Hunt Images: The Eve of St Agnes (1848), The Awakening Conscience (1853), The Light of the World (1853), The Scapegoat (1854), The Shadow of Death (1870) -- site |
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19 Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic, Lord Leighton; Criticism: Elizabeth Prettejohn, "Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Modern City of Ancient Rome" (The Art Bulletin 84.1, 115-29, 2002). Alma-Tadema Images: Autumn (1877) [See also Burne-Jones, Autumn from 1869], Welcome Footsteps (1883), The Favourite Poet (1888), A Difference of Opinion (1896), Ask Me No More (1906), The Year’s at the Spring. All’s Right with the World (1902) . . . Leighton Images: Flaming June (1895), Idyll (1880), Light of the Harem (1880), Mother and Child/Cherries, Odalisque (1862), The Maid with the Golden Hair (1895), The Music Lesson (1877)
26 Paintings of Arthur Hughes, John Everett Millais, and Ford Madox Brown; Laurel Bradley, “From Eden to Empire: John Everett Millais’s Cherry Ripe” [get copy from Dr. Roth]; Pamela Tamarkin Reis, letter to Victorian Studies 35.2 [get copy from Dr. Roth]; and Laurel Bradley, “Reply to Pamela Tamarkin Reis” [get copy from Dr. Roth] Hughes Images: April Love (1855), Good Night (1865), Home From the Sea (1856), The Rescue (1907), Wonderland (1912) . . . Millais Images: Autumn Leaves (1855), The Blind Girl (1854), The Order of Release 1746 (1852), Bubbles (1886), Cherry Ripe (1879) . . . Brown Images: Let The Little Children Come To Me, The Pretty Baa-Lambs (1851), Stages of Cruelty (1856), The Last of England (1855)
Happy Thanksgiving!
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3
-- Tennyson,
"The
Lady of Shalott"; Keats, "La
Belle Dame Sans Merci";
Images: Arthur Hughes, Lady of Shalott (1872-73); William
Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott (1889-92) and The Lady of Shalott
(1886-1905); Elizabeth Siddal, The Lady of Shalott (1853); Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, The Lady of Shalott (1857); John Waterhouse,
The Lady of Shalott (1888), The Lady of Shalott (1894), and
“I am Half Sick of Shadows,” Said the Lady of Shalott
(1916); Frank Cowper, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1910) and La
Belle Dame Sans Merci (1926); Walter Crane, La Belle Dame Sans
Merci (1865); Frank Dicksee, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1902);
Arthur Hughes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1861-63); John Waterhouse,
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893) 10
-- Reconsideration of essays from September 17th 12 -- Final papers due in Dr. Roth's office by 6pm |