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A Critical Study of Pre-Raphaelitism and Rossetti's Divergence from Its Original Doctrine

出版	University of Detroit, 1934
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DbK9jwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The purpose of this paper to accomplish three definite ends: First, to explain the origin and meaning of Pre-Raphaelitism in its correct denotation; second, to single out of this particular movement its contribution to aesthetic practice and criticism; and third, to determine, in a minor degree, the ultimate outcome of Pre-Raphaelitism, including its influence on later aesthetic and literary development. The thesis will concern itself chiefly with point two, point one acting as a necessary corrective to any pre-conceived false notions concerning the movement, as well as a convenient introduction to point two. Part three, although by no means intended to be treated in a complete and exhaustive manner, will be of interest in deciding the ultimate importance and aesthetic value of such a movement in the light of later artistic and literary developments--whether the whole thing was merely a phosphoric aesthetic spurt, a fatal literary morning-glory, so to speak. It is evident that the last point might well be chosen as a complete topic for a thesis in itself; it is by no means a minor phase of Pre-Raphaelite importance; but, by far, too extensive to deal with in a paper which chooses for its major issue the singling out of a body of criticism, which includes such a very definite and important aesthetique. And, it might be added here, by the term criticism is meant its broadest interpretation; namely, the beliefs, ideals, and practice which the men who figured in the movement upheld in their creative work--their aesthetic dogma, so to speak.