Sex and Death in Victorian Literature

English 164H: Spring 2002

MW 1:15-3:05pm - Building 60, Room 61A

Instructor: Christine Alfano

1. Course Description
2. Course Requirements
3. Course Schedule
4. Paper Assignments & Topic Suggestions
5. Quote Archive
6. Links of Interest
7. Questions for Reading
8. Contact Information

IMAGE LINKS: THE EARLY PRE-RAPHAELITES

Below you will find a list of links to related to our discussion from Wednesday, May 1st, featuring images that reinforce either typical early Pre-Raphaelite paintings, the cult of invalidism, or the literary/graphic theme of dying for love. Some of these images were shown in class; others will be new to you. Most of them are courtesy of ArtMagick.com; visit their website to browse through paintings arranged by year. If you choose to write on some aspect of one or more of these paintings, you should use this web-site only as a preliminary step; you should visit the art library to look at a more detailed image in a book on Pre-Raphaelite or Nineteenth-Century British Art.

Early Pre-Raphaelite religious themes:

• The Anunciation (Ecce Ancilla Domini!), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850.
• The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt, 1853.

Fallen woman:

• The Awakening Conscience, William Holman Hunt, 1853

Death romanticized:

• The Death of Chatterton, Henry Wallis, 1856

Literary Themes:

• Claudio and Isabella, William Holman Hunt, 1853
• Guinevere, William Morris, 1857
• Mariana, Sir John Everett Millais, 1851.
• The Blessed Damozel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1875-1878. Link to poem here.
• The Blessed Damozel, John Liston Byam Shaw, 1895
• Ophelia, Sir John Everett Millais, 1851
• Ophelia, Arthur Hughes, 1853
• Ophelia, Thomas Dicksee, 1861
• Ophelia and he will not come again, Arthur Hughes, 1864
• Ophelia, John William Waterhouse, 1894
• The Lady of Shalott, William Holman Hunt, 1850.
• The Lady of Shalott, Elizabeth Siddal, 1853
• The Lady of Shalott, Sir John Everett Millais, 1854.
• The Lady of Shalott, woodcut, William Holman Hunt, 1857.
• The Lady of Shalott, William Holman Hunt, 1886-1905
• The Lady of Shalott, William Holman Hunt, 1886-1905
• The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse.
• "'I am Half Sick of Shadows,' said the Lady of Shalott", John William Waterhouse, 1916.
• "'I am Half Sick of Shadows,' said the Lady of Shalott," Sidney Meteyard, 1913.
• The Lady of Shalott, Arthur Hughes, 1873.
• The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse, 1894.