The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature
A Study of Pre-Raphaelitism and Fin de Siècle

Lother Hönnighausen's book examines the literature and the visual arts of English symbolism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Lothar Hönnighausen (Author), Gisela Hönnighausen (Translated by)

9780521158961, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

362 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

This major and acclaimed study of the symbolist tradition in England focuses on the years 1850 to 1900 and discusses the poetry of such as William Morris, O'Shaughnessy, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Wilde and Yeats, paintings by Holman Hunt, Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones and others, and critical works by Keble, Ruskin, Carlyle, Arnold, Pater and Arthur Symons. This volume considers the changes from romantic symbol through Victorian 'type' and 'emblem' to late romantic image. This study of both literature and the visual arts is comparative in nature, attempting to establish an English symbolist tradition as part of an international development linking the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally published by Cambridge in 1988, Lother Hönnighausen's book includes illustrations and a survey of critical works, defining major research issues and offering suggestions for other work.

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Changing conceptions of the symbol in the nineteenth century
2. Typology and allegory in late romantic literature
3. The impact of symbolist tendencies on late romantic poetry
4. The imaginary landscape
5. The ideal beloved
6. Late romantic spirituality
Postscript: a survey of critical works since 1971
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]