The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526143846)

A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated, and certain of their texts are compared with hers to discuss interplay between erotic and spiritual love, the ballad tradition, nineteenth-century feminism, and the Romantic concept of the conjoined physical and spectral body. Siddal's artwork is used to introduce each chapter, while other Pre-Raphaelite paintings illuminate the texts and further the inter-disciplinary philosophy of the Brotherhood. This important and stimulating book focuses on the intrinsic merit of Siddal's poetics whilst advocating a research method that could have multiple applications elsewhere.

Author: Anne Woolley
ISBN-10: 1526143844
ISBN-13: 9781526143846
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d