Writing the Pre-Raphaelites : text, context, subtext / edited by Michaela Giebelhausen and Tim Barringer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In a word : Pre-Raphaelite, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphaelitism / Deborah Cherry -- Pre-Raphaelites from rebels to representatives : masculinity, modernity and national identity in British and continental art histories, c. 1880-1908 / Julie F. Codell -- "A soul of the age" : Rossetti's words and images 1848-73 / David Peters Corbett -- Reconstructing Pre-Raphaelitism : the evolution of William Michael Rossetti's critical position / Julie L'Enfant -- The quest for Christ : William Holman Hunt and the writing of artistic motivation / Michaela Giebelhausen -- Written out? : the case of Ford Madox Brown / William Vaughan -- Absent of reference : new languages of nature in the critical responses to Pre-Raphaelite landscapes / Jason Rosenfeld -- Poetic, eccentric, Pre-Raphaelite : the critical reception of Simeon Solomon's work at the Dudley Gallery / Colin Cruise -- Exhibiting the avant-garde : the development of the Pre-Raphaelite "brand" / Matthew Plampin -- Millais in reproduction / Malcolm Warner.

"This collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Throughout the twentieth century, Modernist taste failed to acknowledge the achievement of oppositional groupings such as the Pre-Raphaelites. The essays collected here, however, reveal that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity."--Jacket.