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Signs for the Times: Symbolic Realism in the Mid-Victorian World book cover

1st Edition

Signs for the Times Symbolic Realism in the Mid-Victorian World

By Chris Brooks Copyright 1984
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1984. Signs for the Times explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature, painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels, prose writings, paintings and buildings, Chris Brooks establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to the Victorian... Read more

List of Illustrations;  Acknowledgements;  Prefatory Note;  1. Introductory;  Part One;  2. ‘Flame-Images’: Carlyle and the Symbolic Reading of History  3. ‘The Magic Reel’: Metaphor and Reality in The Old Curiosity Shop  4. ‘What the Waves Were Always Saying’: Symbolic Realism in Dombey and Son and David Copperfield  5. ‘Bricked In on All Sides’: Symbolic Exemplification in Bleak House and Hard Times  6. ‘The Prison of This Lower World’: Reality and the Transcendental in Little Dorrit  7. ‘Recalled to Life’: The Christian Myth of A Tale of Two Cities  8. ‘Our Feverish Contact Fly’: Arnold and the Symbol in Retreat;  Part Two;  9. ‘Bona Fide Imitation’: Pictorial Realism and Modern Painters  10. ‘The World without Eyelids’: Symbolic Realism and Pre-Raphaelite Painting  11. ‘Things as They Really Are’: Four Pre-Raphaelite Pictures;  Part Three;  12. ‘Functional and Mystical’: Architectural Meaning and Puginian Gothic  13. ‘Making the Building Speak’: Symbolism and the Gothic Revival  14. ‘Without Flow or Continuity’: The Architectural Semantic of William Butterfield;  Epilogue;  Notes;  Index

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Brooks, Chris

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