Elizabeth Prettejohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1232037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Prettejohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Prettejohn |
| SIGNATURE | PRETTEJOHN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. W…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His School
A distinctive feature of Pater’s oeuvre is that, like many French critics of his generation, he wrote both literary and art criticism; in this respect his work parallels that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter. The chapter argues that, if Jerome McGann is right to describe Pater’s essay on Rossetti as ‘the best single study of Rossetti’s poetry we have’, that is because Pater provides the most persuasive interpretation of this double asp…
The Scandal of M. Alphonse Legros
This essay asks why the art of Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) remained inconspicuous in the art history of the past generation, when the study of the nineteenth century played such a prominent role in the discipline. Legros's realist and politically committed practice is eminently suited to the art‐historical methods that dominated that period. He was an associate of Courbet and Whistler, and his work attracted comment from Charles Baudelaire, Walte…
Pater the Classicist
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an in…
Ford Madox Brown and History Painting
This article argues that Ford Madox Brown’s modern-life painting should be seen as a subset of his practice in history painting. Whether he chose subject-matter from the contemporary world or from the past, Brown sought to give it the weight and ethical seriousness traditionally associated with history painting. This ambition helps to make sense of Brown’s practice in religious painting, an area neglected in the previous secondary literature, but…
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central…
The Cambridge companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
"The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the centra…
Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho
103 Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho Eliza beth Pr ettejohn • I have striven to cast my spirit into the mould of hers, to express and represent not the poem but the poet. Swinburne, Notes on Poems and Reviews Everyone knows one fact about Sappho: that she desired other women. As Glenn Most puts it,“For [twentieth-century] culture, Sappho is first of all the emblem of female homosexuality ... and secondarily the author of a small number of surviving poe…
ART WRITING NOW by T.J. Clark and Peter de Bolla
Løve in Copenhagen
Aesthetic Value and the Professionalization of Victorian Art Criticism 1837–78
Journal Article Aesthetic Value and the Professionalization of Victorian Art Criticism 1837–78 Get access Elizabeth Prettejohn Elizabeth Prettejohn 1 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 71–94, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505939 Published: 01 March 1997
Undermining the Archive
Dianne Sachko Macleod. Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity
Locked in the Myth
James McNeill Whistler by Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald with contributions by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr, Ruth Fine and Geneviève Lacambre , exh. cat., London: Tate Gallery; Paris: Musée d'Orsay; and Washington: National Gallery of Art, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994, 335 pp., 205 col. plates, 128 b. & w. illus., £25.00 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval , London: John Murray, 1994, 544 pp., 1…
Pater the Classicist
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an in…
Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho
103 Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho Eliza beth Pr ettejohn • I have striven to cast my spirit into the mould of hers, to express and represent not the poem but the poet. Swinburne, Notes on Poems and Reviews Everyone knows one fact about Sappho: that she desired other women. As Glenn Most puts it,“For [twentieth-century] culture, Sappho is first of all the emblem of female homosexuality ... and secondarily the author of a small number of surviving poe…
Locked in the Myth
James McNeill Whistler by Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald with contributions by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr, Ruth Fine and Geneviève Lacambre , exh. cat., London: Tate Gallery; Paris: Musée d'Orsay; and Washington: National Gallery of Art, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1994, 335 pp., 205 col. plates, 128 b. & w. illus., £25.00 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval , London: John Murray, 1994, 544 pp., 1…
Aesthetic Value and the Professionalization of Victorian Art Criticism 1837–78
Journal Article Aesthetic Value and the Professionalization of Victorian Art Criticism 1837–78 Get access Elizabeth Prettejohn Elizabeth Prettejohn 1 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 71–94, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505939 Published: 01 March 1997
Undermining the Archive
Dianne Sachko Macleod. Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity
Løve in Copenhagen
ART WRITING NOW by T.J. Clark and Peter de Bolla
Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho
103 Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho Eliza beth Pr ettejohn • I have striven to cast my spirit into the mould of hers, to express and represent not the poem but the poet. Swinburne, Notes on Poems and Reviews Everyone knows one fact about Sappho: that she desired other women. As Glenn Most puts it,“For [twentieth-century] culture, Sappho is first of all the emblem of female homosexuality ... and secondarily the author of a small number of surviving poe…
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central…
The Cambridge companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
"The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the centra…
Ford Madox Brown and History Painting
This article argues that Ford Madox Brown’s modern-life painting should be seen as a subset of his practice in history painting. Whether he chose subject-matter from the contemporary world or from the past, Brown sought to give it the weight and ethical seriousness traditionally associated with history painting. This ambition helps to make sense of Brown’s practice in religious painting, an area neglected in the previous secondary literature, but…
Pater the Classicist
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an in…
The Scandal of M. Alphonse Legros
This essay asks why the art of Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) remained inconspicuous in the art history of the past generation, when the study of the nineteenth century played such a prominent role in the discipline. Legros's realist and politically committed practice is eminently suited to the art‐historical methods that dominated that period. He was an associate of Courbet and Whistler, and his work attracted comment from Charles Baudelaire, Walte…
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. W…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His School
A distinctive feature of Pater’s oeuvre is that, like many French critics of his generation, he wrote both literary and art criticism; in this respect his work parallels that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter. The chapter argues that, if Jerome McGann is right to describe Pater’s essay on Rossetti as ‘the best single study of Rossetti’s poetry we have’, that is because Pater provides the most persuasive interpretation of this double asp…
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