Desperate Romantics
Subtitle: the private lives of the Pre-Raphaelites
By: Franny Moyle
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781848540507
Subjects: English Drawing; Pre-Raphaelites; English Painting; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Pre-Raphaelitism; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: TV tie-in.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: The dark secret; title: Long live the revolution; title: Muse and amusement; title: Town talk and table talk; title: Ophelia; title: The awakening conscience; title: Luscious fruit must fall; title: The order of release; title: Sim phantoms of an unknown ill; title: Not as she is but as she fills his dream; title: New Knights of the Round Table; title: Since love is seldom true; title: Irish roses; title: The towers of Topsy; title: Obsession; title: Resurrection; title: Torments of the flesh.