Book contents
- Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Adam Smith’s Liberal Sympathy
- Chapter 2 “O You Pretty Pecksie!”
- Chapter 3 Written–Visual Aesthetics
- Chapter 4 Typographical Adventures
- Chapter 5 Sim and Puss
- Chapter 6 Towards Empathy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 3 - Written–Visual Aesthetics
The Rossettis and the Pre-Raphaelites
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2022
- Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Adam Smith’s Liberal Sympathy
- Chapter 2 “O You Pretty Pecksie!”
- Chapter 3 Written–Visual Aesthetics
- Chapter 4 Typographical Adventures
- Chapter 5 Sim and Puss
- Chapter 6 Towards Empathy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
Chapter 3 analyzes Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s illustrations alongside a formal analysis of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market (1862) to draw further attention to the creative and communal processes associated with intertextual collaborative production. Reading this collaboration through the lens of sympathetic collaboration allows for an understanding of fellow-feeling dependent on the articulation of both individual and communal viewpoints – acknowledging difference – and the means of self-assimilation to form community. Reading Goblin Market as a collaborative lyric establishes how the poem constructs a reproduction of the Rossetti collaboration and underscores the interrelationships between word and image and community development. Placing the poem alongside the reformative work Christina Rossetti completed at Highgate Penitentiary, this chapter provides a direct contextual link to sympathetic concord and its inflection of moral reform. Reading the Rossettis’ contemporaneous literary productions as sympathetic collaborations that inform one another reveals, more broadly, the interlacings of shared experiences and literary and artistic productions within the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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- Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth CenturySympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation, pp. 64 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022