Main entry:

Brooks, Chris.

Title & Author:

Signs for the times : symbolic Realism in the mid-Victorian world / Chris Brooks.

Publication:

London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1984.

Description:

xiv, 202 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.
'Flame images': Carlyle and the symbolic reading of history -- 'The magic reel': metaphor and reality in "The old curiosity shop" -- 'What the waves were always saying': symbolic Realism in "Dombey and son" and "David Copperfield" -- 'Bricked in on all sides': symbolic exemplification in "Bleak house" and "Hard Times" -- 'The prison of this lower world': reality and the transcendental in "Little Dorrit" -- 'Recalled to life': the Christian myth of "A tale of two cities" -- 'Our feverish contact fly': Arnold and the symbol in retreat -- 'Bona fide imitation': pictorial Realism and "Modern painters" -- 'The world without eyelids': symbolic realism and pre-Raphaelite painting -- 'Things as they really are': four pre-Raphaelite pictures -- "Functional and mystical': architectural meaning and Puginian Gothic -- 'Making the building speak': symbolism and the Gothic revival -- 'Without flow or continuity': the architectural semantic of William Butterfield.

Summary:

This book explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature, painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels, prose writings, paintings and buildings, the author establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to Victorian creative imagination. He argues that the creative achievement of the mid-nineteenth century needs to be seen far more as a whole than it has been previously, and that fundamental imaginative terms are common to art and architecture, and major theoretical writers. -- Publisher description.

ISBN:

0048000302
9780048000309

Subject:

Arts, British.
Arts, Victorian Great Britain.
Realism in art.
Symbolism in art.
Arts, English.
Arts britanniques.
Arts victoriens Grande-Bretagne.
Réalisme (Art)
Symbolisme dans l'art.
realism (artistic form of expression)
Arts, Victorian
Great Britain
English arts, 1837-1900. Symbolism - Critical studies

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121909
Call No.: ID:86-B4794
Status: Available