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Desperate Romantics
Engelsk Paperback
Desperate Romantics
Engelsk Paperback

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Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death. The characters are huge and vivid and remain as compelling today as they were in their own time.

The influential critic, writer and artist John Ruskin was their father figure and his apostles included the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the designer William Morris. They drew extraordinary women into their circle. In a move intended to raise eyebrows for its social audacity, they recruited the most ravishing models they could find from the gutters of Victorian slums.

The saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries. These real-lie stories shed new light on the greatest nineteenth-century British art.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
432
ISBN-13:
9781848540507
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1848540507
Udg. Dato:
14 jul 2009
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
John Murray Press
Oplagsdato:
14 jul 2009
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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