Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I. The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism
1. The Retrogressive Argument
2. Archaism
3. Pathological Discourse
Part II. Rossetti, the Sexualized Woman, and the Late 1850s
1. The Fallen Woman: `Jenny' and Found
2. The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere, Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia
3. The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's Bocca Baciata
Part III. Rossetti and Male Desire
1. Pygmalion and Rossetti's `A Last Confession'
2. The Woman in the Mirror
Part IV. Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body
1. The Aesthetic Conspiracy
2. The Problems of Femininity and Effeminization
3. The Theology of Intensity
4. The Androgynous Mind
5. The Pathology of Aestheticism
6. The Importance of Physiognomy
7. The Solitary Vice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I. The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism
1. The Retrogressive Argument
2. Archaism
3. Pathological Discourse
Part II. Rossetti, the Sexualized Woman, and the Late 1850s
1. The Fallen Woman: `Jenny' and Found
2. The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere, Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia
3. The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's Bocca Baciata
Part III. Rossetti and Male Desire
1. Pygmalion and Rossetti's `A Last Confession'
2. The Woman in the Mirror
Part IV. Burne-Jones and the Aesthetic Body
1. The Aesthetic Conspiracy
2. The Problems of Femininity and Effeminization
3. The Theology of Intensity
4. The Androgynous Mind
5. The Pathology of Aestheticism
6. The Importance of Physiognomy
7. The Solitary Vice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index