Brotherhood: Interrogating Pre-Raphaelite Manliness

The trio of John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti formed the nucleus of a group of young men known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a name which, the editors note, has to a great extent screened “masculinity” from scholarly view in analyses of the Pre-Raphaelites, d...

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Published in:Nineteenth-Century gender studies 2015, Vol.11 (2)
Main Author: Nancy Rose Marshall
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849)
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)
Christianity
Essays
Feminism
Gender
Hands
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
Males
Masculinity
Pre-Raphaelitism
Rape
Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761)
Sex crimes
Victorian period
Writers
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Summary:The trio of John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti formed the nucleus of a group of young men known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a name which, the editors note, has to a great extent screened “masculinity” from scholarly view in analyses of the Pre-Raphaelites, due to the extent to which their identity as a fraternity naturalized the term. [ 5 ] The concluding essay by Eleanor Fraser Stansbie, “Christianity, Masculinity, Imperialism: The Light of the World and Colonial Contexts of Display,” contemplates the ways in which a fetishized male body was at the center of the imperial project. Stansbie guides the reader through a productive visual analysis of three versions of Hunt’s iconic image of Christ holding a lantern that considers how their exhibition contexts produced particular meanings. [ 7 ] The introduction, by Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge, nods to feminist theory (2-3), which originally catalyzed the probing and dismantling of gender categories, as well as to foundational texts in the study of the nineteenth-century male, such as Martin A. Danahay’s Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity (Ashgate, 2005).
ISSN:1556-7524