Marshall selected
Marshall named Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies by UD Library, Delaware Art Museum
9:56 a.m., July 8, 2015--The University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum have announced that Nancy Rose Marshall, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in Victorian art and visual culture, has been selected as the 2015 Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies during November.
This one-month joint fellowship co-sponsored by the library and the museum is intended for scholars working on the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates.
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Co-author of the exhibition catalogue James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love (Yale Center for British Art, 1999), Marshall has most recently completed a book on the construction of imperialist metropolitan modernity in fine art, City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for Yale University Press, 2012).
Growing out of research for this book is a new project on Victorian representations of fire in paint and print. While serving as the 2015 Pre-Raphaelite Fellow, Marshall will work on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a monograph for Phaedon Press. Unlike many studies that examine Rossetti in isolation from mainstream Victorian culture, this book places him in specific social-historical contexts.
In particular, Rossetti’s thought can be seen in the light of distinctively Victorian anxieties about the body, death and memory; his oeuvre – with its unique and daring meditations on the inextricability of the body from the soul – considers the same questions posed by Darwin-influenced, cutting-edge scientists of the period.
While in Delaware, Marshall will consult the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection of Pre-Raphaelite materials in the library as well as items in Special Collections, also in the library. She will also consult the curatorial files on the Rossetti paintings in the Delaware Art Museum.
Marshall has stated that she is also excited to be in Wilmington for the Nov. 7 opening of the museum’s exhibition, “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman,” curated by Margaretta Frederick and Jan Marsh.
The Delaware Art Museum is home to the most important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art in the United States. Assembled largely by Samuel Bancroft Jr., the collection includes paintings, works on paper, decorative arts, manuscripts and letters, and is augmented by the museum’s Helen Farr Sloan art library.
With comprehensive holdings in books, periodicals, electronic resources and microforms, the University of Delaware Library is a major resource for the study of literature and art. Special Collections contains materials related to the Pre-Raphaelites who are also well-represented in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection of Victorian books, manuscripts and artworks.