First published in 1984. Signs for the Times explores imaginative and creative relationships between three major areas of mid-Victorian arts: literature; painting and architecture. Through the detailed critical analysis of particular novels; prose writings; paintings and buildings; Chris Brooks establishes a fusion of realistic and symbolic values that he sees as central to the Victorian creative imagination. He argues that the creative achievement of the mid-nineteenth century needs to be seen far more as a whole than it has previously; and that fundamental imaginative terms are common to art and architecture; to major theoretical writers such as Carlyle; Ruskin and Rugin as well as to the central literary figure of Dickens. All those interested in literature; art; or architecture will welcome this interpretation of symbolic realism within the mid-Victorian world.
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