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A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century reader's desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xv-xxviii
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  1. 1. The Pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian Novel
  2. pp. 1-44
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  1. 2. Elizabeth Gaskell's Resistance to Pre-Raphaelite Gendered Silence
  2. pp. 45-70
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  1. 3. Wilkie Collins's Reconfigurations of Pre-Raphaelite Gendered Shadows
  2. pp. 71-96
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  1. 4. George Eliot's Pre-Raphaelite Gendered Imperialism
  2. pp. 97-135
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  1. 5. Beyond Gender Boundaries: Edward Burne-Jones and Thomas Hardy
  2. pp. 136-160
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 161-166
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 167-184
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 185-200
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 201-208
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