Transfiguration : the religion of art in nineteenth-century literature before aestheticism / Stephen Cheeke.

First edition.

9780191817137 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

PR468.R44

820.938209034

'Transfiguration' explores the work of John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walter Pater, treating in particular the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Pater's case, how the art of Christianity was contrasted with classical sculpture. Stephen Cheeke examines two related phenomena: idolatry (a false substitution, a sexual betrayal), and the poetics of transfiguration (to elevate or glorify subject matter not thought of as conventionally poetic, to praise).

'Transfiguration' explores the work of John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walter Pater, treating in particular the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Pater's case, how the art of Christianity was contrasted with classical sculpture. Stephen Cheeke examines two related phenomena: idolatry (a false substitution, a sexual betrayal), and the poetics of transfiguration (to elevate or glorify subject matter not thought of as conventionally poetic, to praise).

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