Pre-Raphaelite model and wife to Gabriel Rossetti‚ is the source of intrigue for many Victorian researchers. Her mystery began from her vague background as a milliner ’s assistant. From the start‚ many stories were told of her discovery and yet few stories were told of her past before that point. A frail young woman‚ she was addicted to narcotics and suffered from a variety of ailments‚ from the physical to the mental. Her turbulent relationship with Rossetti was plagued with ups and downs‚ and
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prototypes and points of contrast for what would become a multiplicity of interrelated movements in these and half of the 19th century including the Aesthetic movement and the classical movement. In 1848‚ three young Royal Academy students- Dante Gabriel Rossetti‚ John Everett Millias and William Holman Hunt- founded this brotherhood. The brotherhood exhibits a reaction against the industrialization of Europe and thus the Pre-Raphaelite movement grows out of the early 19th century.
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"Andrea del Sarto (Called ’The Faultless Painter’)" Summary This dramatic monologue is narrated by Renaissance painter Andrea del Sarto to his wife Lucrezia. They live in Florence. Andrea begs Lucrezia that they end a quarrel over whether the painter should sell his paintings to a friend of his wife’s. He acquiesces to her wish and promises he will give her the money if she will only hold his hand and sit with him by the window from which they can survey Florence. He admits to feeling a deep melancholy
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Literature During the Victorian Age of Great Britain Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901 - the Victorian era‚ her reign‚ the longest in English history). It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century. The 19th century saw the novel become the leading form of literature in English. The works by pre-Victorian writers such as Jane Austen and Walter Scott had
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List of literary movements From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This is a list of modern literary movements: that is‚ movements after the Renaissance. These terms‚ helpful for curricula or anthologies‚ evolved over time to group certain writers who are often loosely related. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves‚ while other terms (the metaphysical poets‚ for example) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in
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During the the mid 19th century‚ prostitution was at its height of popularity in Victorian England. A total of 8600 documented prostitutes was estimated by the Metropolitan Police Division during 1868‚ not included the number of those whom the police had not acknowledged (Acton 38). Initiated as an occupation that brought women to the the sense of power and social statuses independently‚ prostitution was scrutinized and perceived as the root of social corruptions by many male scholars at the time
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love triangle story of Dante (Paolo Paraiso)‚ Abi (Katherine Luna)‚ and Jonathan (Arnold Reyes) creates a feeling of disturbance to its viewers as it leaves a question to be answered‚ “When is an act considered immoral?” The movie Imoral begins with the couple Dante and Abi searching for a new apartment where they could stay. Eventually‚ they found one‚ but introduced to their landlady Jonathan‚ an engineer and the gay lover of Dante‚ and Abi as husband and wife‚ and Dante as Jonathan’s cousin
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The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period‚ English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture‚ and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently‚ the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England‚ or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do
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Periods of British Literature: 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500: Middle English Period 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age 1603-1625: Jacobean Age 1625-1649: Caroline Age 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum) 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700: The Restoration 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830: The Romantic Period 1832-1901: The Victorian
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reformer William Morris. He developed the view that art should be both beautiful and functional. His ideal‚ the pure and simple beauty of modern craftsmanship was further strengthened by his friendships with the painters Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who also looked to the middle ages for aesthetic guidance . Yet‚ while the Arts and Crafts movement was in large part a reaction to industrialization‚ if looked at on the whole‚ it was neither anti-industrial nor anti-modern. Some of the
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