Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities

Drawing on recent theoretical developments in gender and men's studies Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities shows how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities the contributors take up the multiple versions of masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings and poetry masculine violence in William Morris's late romances nineteenth-century masculinity and the medical narrative in Ford Madox Brown's Cromwell on His Farm accusations of 'perversion' directed at Edward Burne-Jones's work performative masculinity and William Bell Scott's frescoes the representations of masculinity in Pre-Raphaelite illustration aspects of male chastity in poetry and art Tannhäuser as a model for Victorian manhood and masculinity and British imperialism in Holman Hunt's The Light of the World. Taken together these essays demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the plurality of masculinities that pervade the art and literature of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.