Discussion Questions for the Week of 20 September 2004

Students in English and History of Art 151, Brown University, 2004

John Brett

• Hidden Meaning in the Rocks: Rocks on the Foreshore
• Elements of Science and Religion in John Brett's Landscape Paintings
• Rocks on the Foreshore and Ruskinian Realism
• Ambiguity in John Brett's Off the Coast, Guernsey

Ford Madox Brown

• Realism and a Struggle with Convention in Christ Washing Peter's Feet
• Ford Madox Brown: The Social Realism of Work
• Ford Madox Brown as Social Commentator

• The Victorian Passion to Weed Out Vice and Hunt's Awakening Conscience
• Depicting the Inspired Subject: Hunt's Rienzi
• Moral Critique in Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd
• The Moral Implications of Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd
• Religious and Political Meaning in the Pre-Raphaelite Landscape: Hunt's Strayed Sheep (Our English Coasts)
• Symbolism in Hunt's The Scapegoat
• The Passion according to Hunt and Gibson (The Shadow of Death)
• Regarding the Presence of Typological Symbolism within Hunt's The Shadow of Death
• Realism and Spirituality in Hunt's The Triumph of the Innocents
• The Enchanted Journey (The Triumph of the Innocents)
• The Triumph of the Innocents as Magical Realism
• The Unraveling of the Lady of Shalott
• Eclectic Symbolism in Hunt's The Lady of Shalott

Henry Wallis

• The Effects of the Color-Scheme in Henry Wallis' The Death of Chatterton

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