 | Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity Subjects: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Arts and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Celebrities -- Great Britain; Aesthetes -- Great Britain; Wendy Graham traces the critical discourses that shaped the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's reception and continues to inform responses to them. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a new interpretation of the place of aesthetic counterculture in Victorian England. Wendy Graham is professor of English at Vassar College and the author of Henry James's Thwarted Love (1999). |
