"Art, the Embodied Expression of Man" [antikvár]

ForewordI.,The first volume of our series. Papers in English American Studies, dates back as far as 1981. Since then we have published eight volumes, most of them are collections of essays, covering various fields of Enghsh and American stadies. In 1995, however, we realized that beside the thematic volumes of papers it may be a good idea to publish larger works, especially bearing in mind that the Hungarian market does not make feasible for larger, professional houses to pubhsh foreign language books. It means, that our colleagues, who have written their PhD dissertations in English, unless they can find a foreign publisher, would have Htde chance to see their work in print, no matter how valuable that piece of writing is. So we started otir "Monograph Series" with PEAS V. Unfortunately eight years passed until we have become ready to present the second monograph in the series. Now I am delighted to offer to our readers the smdy of our ex-colleague (presendy a senior lecturer at the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training Faculty), Anikó Németh, who has developed this book from her PhD devoted to the aesthetical views and the educational work ethics of the Pre-Raphaelite artists and theorists, especially that of John Ruskin and William Morris. This monograph discusses the original works of the mentioned artist-thinkers as well as places them in a framework of modern cultural and literary theories. Thus it will be useful for those readers (among them our English and American studies majors) who are interested in the culture of the late-Victorian period, at the same time it offers a case stady how to apply (post)modern theory to cultural-historical materials.1 I atV aEj ^ it 'ILrI I!'.U