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What, if any, is the relationship between Charles Dickens, and the decorative arts? Between Henry James and Art Nouveau? Between the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the paintings of the Impressionists? Recent trends in scholarship have begun to reassess the assumption that the arts of painting and literature are too fundamentally disparate to permit a fruitful comparison between the two. In Victorian Contexts, Murray Roston puts that assumption to rest once and for all, with imaginative and refreshing essays on the similarities and shared themes of the literature, paintings, architecture,…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 1996Palgrave Macmillan · 276 pages · 9781349139880
- Other · English · 1996Macmillan · 246 pages · 9780333654422
- Other · English · 1996Palgrave Macmillan · 9781349139866
- Other · English · 1996New York University Press · 246 pages · 9780814774854
Aesthetics, BritishArt and literatureBritish AestheticsEnglish literatureHistoryHistory and criticismVictorianaCivilization, modern, 19th century