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Victorian Word and Image  
The visual arts' influence on writing in nineteenth-century England. How photography's popularity led to more detailed descriptions in novels like Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Mary Gaskell's Mary Barton. How the Pre-Raphaelite author Christina Rossetti combined image and word in her poetry, including "Goblin Market," "In an Artist's Studio," and If a Pig Wore a Wig. The increasingly important role of art critics, like John Ruskin, to painting's expanding audience.
Program 235
  Participants
Nancy Armstrong
Kate Flint
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

 

 
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