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AH 407: Topics in Nineteenth-Century Art:
Pre-Raphaelitism, Vision, and Desire (Spring 2008)
LECTURE AND READING SCHEDULE
WEEK 1. INTRODUCTION
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1/22 (T): Introduction
1/24 (R): Art History Method and Practice
FOCUS ON METHOD: Formal Analysis
WEEK 2. EARLY P.R.B.
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1/29 (T): Brotherhood Years
Read:
- Prettejohn, 17-45
- Excerpts, Reviews and John Ruskin’s Defense of P.R.B.
1/31 (R): Controversies
Read:
- Prettejohn, 242-251
- Michaela Gibelhausen, “A Step Too Far: The Signal for the Perfect Crusade Against the PRB” (Millais’
Christ in the House of his Parents),” Painting the Bible, 2006
FOCUS ON METHOD: Reception Studies
WEEK 3. PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE
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2/5 (T): Modern Life and Gender
Read:
- Prettejohn, 87 -98; 233-242
2/7 (R): Class in Victorian England
Read:
- Tim Barringer, “Art, Religion, and Labour,” Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain, 2005
FOCUS ON METHOD: Social Art History
WEEK 4. EMPIRICISM AND ESCAPISM
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2/12 (T): Art and Science
Read:
- Prettejohn, 251-259
- Julie F. Codell, “Empiricism, Naturalism, and Science in Millais’ Paintings,” in Mancoff, ed.,
John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2001
2/14 (R): The Medieval Fantasy
**PAPER 1 DUE**
Read:
WEEK 5. LANDSCAPE
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2/19 (T): Landscape and Vision
Read:
- Prettejohn, 165-188
- Alastair Ian Wright, “Suburban Prospects: Vision and Possession in Ford Madox Brown’s
An English Autumn Afternoon,” in Watson, ed., Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites, 1997
2/21 (R): Study Day
Read:
WEEK 6. MASCULNITIES
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2/26 (T): “The Fleshly School”
**Group 1 Presentation**
Read:
- J.B. Bullen, “Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body”, The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry and Criticism, 2005
2/28 (R): Alternative Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities
Read:
- Colin Cruise, “Lovely Devils: Simeon Solomon and Pre-Raphaelite Masculinity” in Harding, ed.
Re-Framing the Pre-Raphaelites, 1996
FOCUS ON METHOD: Queer Theory
WEEK 7. INTERIORITIES
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3/4 (T): Collectors and Collecting
**Graduate Paper Topic Due**
Read:
- Dianne Sachko Macleod, “The ‘Identity’ of the Pre-Raphaelite Patrons,” in Harding, ed.,
Re-Framing the Pre-Raphaelites, 1995
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Letters to Leyland
FOCUS ON METHOD: Patronage
3/6 (R): Pre-Raphaelite Interiors
**Group 2 Presentation**
WEEK 8. READING LIVES
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3/11 (T): Biographical Issues
Read:
- Excerpts, Pre-Raphaelite Writings
FOCUS ON METHOD: Biography
3/13 (R): Orientalism
Read:
- Francesca Vanke Altman, “William Holman Hunt, Race, and Orientalism,” in Tobin, ed.,
World-Wide Pre-Raphaelitism, 2005
***SPRING BREAK: Saturday, March 15th – Sunday, March 23rd***
WEEK 10. GENDER AND THE GAZE
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3/25 (T): Gendered Gazing
Read:
- Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Visual and Other Pleasures, 1991
3/27 (R): Iconic Femininity
**Group 3 Presentation**
Read:
- Griselda Pollock, “Woman as Sign: Pyschoanalytic Readings,” Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the History of Art, 1988
- Selections, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Poetry
FOCUS ON METHOD: Psychoanalysis
WEEK 11. GAZE AND DESIRE
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4/1 (T): Sexuality and Gender
Read:
- Stephen Kern, “Seduction,” Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Culture 1840-1900, 1996
- Rossetti “Jenny”
4/3 (R): The Pre-Raphaelite Nude
**PAPER 2 DUE**
Read:
- Alison Smith, “Millais’ Knight Errant and the Formation of the English Nude” in Harding, ed.
Re-Framing the Pre-Raphaelites, 1996
WEEK 12. THEMES OF FEMININITY
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4/8 (T): Femmes Fatales
Read:
- Beverly Taylor, “Female Savants and the Erotics of Knowledge in Pre-Raphaelite Art” in Watson, ed.,
Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites, 1997
4/10 (R): Sleeping and Awakening
Read:
- Larry D. Lutchmansingh, “Fantasy and Arrested Desire in Edward Burne-Jones Briar-Rose Series,” in Pointon, ed.,
Re-Viewing the Pre-Raphaelites, 1989
WEEK 13. THEMES OF FEMININITY II
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4/15 (T): Imprisonment and Virginity
**Group 4 Presentation**
Read:
- Lynn Pearce, “Mariana: Gorgeous Surfaces,” Woman Image Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature,” 1991
4/17 (R): Ladies of Shalott
Read:
- Prettejohn, 223-231; 261-262
- Christine Poulson, “Death and the Maiden: The Lady of Shalott and the Pre-Raphaelites” in Harding, ed.
Re-Framing the Pre-Raphaelites, 1996
- Tennyson, “Lady of Shalott”
WEEK 14. FEMALE ALTERNATIVES
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4/22 (T): Women Artists
**Graduate Thesis Statement/Bibliography Due**
Read:
4/24 (R): Woman’s Vision?
**Group 5 Presentation**
Read:
- Deborah Cherry, “Elizabeth Siddall: Woman in the Relay of the Gaze” Painting Women: Victorian Woman Artists, 1993
- Griselda Pollock and Deborah Cherry, “Woman as Sign in Pre-Raphaelite Literature: The Representation of Elizabeth Siddall,”
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the History of Art, 1988
FOCUS ON METHOD: Feminism
WEEK 15. WOMEN’S TEXTS
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4/29 (T): Female Desire and Alternatives
**Graduate Paper Due**
Read:
- Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market” and “In and Artist’s Studio”
- Elise Lawton Smith, “The Role of Women in De Morgan’s Later History Paintings”
Evelyn Pickering DeMorgan and the Allegorical Body, 2002
5/1 (R): Models and Artists: Biographical issues
Read:
- Prettejohn, 189-205
- Elizabeth Siddall, Poems
WEEK 16. CONCLUSIONS
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5/6 (T): Contemporary Pre-Raphaelitisms
5/8 (R): Conclusion
***TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM DUE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008 BY 5:00 P.M.***