DESPERATE ROMANTICS
Book ID/图书代码： 06400007B13348
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
The influential critic, writer and artist John Ruskin was their father figure and his apostles included the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the designer William Morris. They drew extraordinary women into their circle. In a move intended to raise eyebrows for its social audacity, they recruited the most ravishing models they could find from the gutters of Victorian slums.
The saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries. These real-life stories shed new light on the greatest nineteenth-century British art.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書以小說的創作手法，將前拉斐爾藝術運動歷史，才子佳人的浪漫故事、青年人的革命熱忱、天才們的神秘生活等豐富情節集於一體。再加上散發著十九世紀的古典浪漫氣息，本書十分有魅力。
他們波西米亞式的生活作風以及錯綜複雜的愛情故事出乎意料地打破了19世紀的階級門檻，並且徹底顛覆了性愛的傳統角色。他們陷在愛情的三角戀中，堅決反對維多利亞時期的苦行僧生活；他們用愛情，嫉妒以及背叛去激怒同代人，他們還選擇用與瘋狂和死亡密切相關的道德觀，或者會引起沉溺於死亡放縱去震驚世界。他們都是高大，形象的人物，在今天引人注目的程度絕不亞於他們自己那個時代。
評論家，作家以及藝術家約翰.羅斯金在當時的名望頗高，無疑是一個教父式的人物，他的信徒包括畫家Dante Gabriel Rossetti 和 設計師William Morris。他們還把傑出的女性納入團隊。為了能夠強烈批判社會中厚顏無恥的徒，他們從不堪入目的貧民窟搜尋作畫模特。由於加入了前拉菲爾派藝術家的個人信件和日記以及同代人對他們的記錄和描述，本書活靈活現地重述了一個傳奇故事。這些真實的故事重新闡釋了19世紀英國最偉大的藝術。（from XMM）
Awards/获奖情况：US rights: John Murray/Available
Translation rights: John Murray/ Available 配合本書出版，BBC將同時推出同名系列電視影集。
中文书讯/徐曼曼2011-8-1/本作者其他作品中英文介绍请参见“中文书讯”
About the Author/作者介绍： 本書作者是在英國享有盛譽的文化人士，她曾位居BBC高層，統籌所有文化藝術相關節目。本書是她以小說故事手法，將前拉斐爾藝術運動的歷史，高明的包裝在才子佳人、青春同儕革命熱忱、天才的秘密生活…等豐富情節之中，加上又散發著十九世紀的古典浪漫氣息，十分吸引人。Franny Moyle has a degree in English and History of Art from St John’s College, Cambridge. She was Commissioner of Arts and Culture across the four main channels of the BBC before leaving to pursue her own projects.
She is a key figure in cultural television programming. She left a very senior role at the BBC a year ago to pursue her own publishing and television projects, and is currently a freelance executive producer, handling some of the BBC’s and other terrestrial channels’ major cultural series.
>From June 2000 until April 2005, Franny Moyle influenced arts programming, first as the Creative Director of the BBC’s main arts production department, London Arts, and since 2002 as the corporation’s first Commissioner of Arts and Culture for BBC TV across its four main channels – a role which includes responsibility for £55 million worth of programming over well over 600 hours of airtime annually.
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