Discussion Questions for Weeks Two and Three

Students in English/History of Art 151, Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetes, and Decadents, Brown University, 2004

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Brett

• A Comparison of Scale: John Brett's The Glacier of Rosenlaui and Val de'Aosta

Browning

• Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi" and Pre-Raphaelite Hard-Edge Realism

Egg

• Augustus Leopold Egg's The Life and Death of Buckingham
• The Light and Darkness of Symbolic Narrative in Augustus Leopold Egg's Past and Present

Hogarth

• Hogarth, the PRB, and Textualizing Images

Tennyson

• Polyphony in Poetry: Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"
• Tennyson, Hunt, and Shadows in "The Lady of Shalott"
• Abandonment, Neglect, and Isolation in Tennyson's "Mariana"
• The Arrogance of Isolation in "The Palace of Art"

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