Susie Beckham is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the History of Art at the University of York
Melissa L. Gustin is Curator of British Art at National Museums Liverpool

Introduction: Constantly aspiring – Melissa L. Gustin and Susie Beckham

Part I: The Pre-Raphaelites and their followers
1 Pre-Raphaelite art is A Nightmare – Susie Beckham
2 Materialising a creative network: Jane Morris’s jewel casket – Isabella Galdone
3 America’s first Rossetti – Sophie Lynford
4 ‘An idea of a rose-hedge’: William Morris’s Rose – Sarah Mead Leonard
5 Blaze like a comet: William Dyce and heavenly perception in an age of uncertainty – Jason Rosenfeld
6 The captivity of Venus: aesthetic transformation in Edward Burne-Jones’s Laus Veneris – Andrea Wolk Rager

Part II: Aestheticism
7 Art, music and the School of Giorgione – Tim Barringer
8 Interrupted by Lawrence Alma-Tadema: print into painting (and back again) – Donato Esposito
9 Frederic Leighton’s Golden Hours: sound to colour – Marte Stinis
10 Whistler’s folding picture – Whitney Davis
11 Art reborn: Walter Crane’s Renaissance of Venus and Walter Pater’s Renaissance – Morna O’Neill
12 Between young men, and dogs, or when species meet: Henry Scott Tuke’s Companions (c.1923-1924) – Jason Edwards

Part III: International and intertemporal travels
13 Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, a rediscovered passport and a reattributed Giovanni Bellini for the National Gallery in 1858 – Susanna Avery-Quash
14 Blurred revivals: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Annunciations – Ayla Lepine
15 Old Damascus: Jews' Quarter (1874) and the spectre of Orientalism – Madeline Hewitson
16 ‘One master after another master’: time and translation in Christiana Herringham, Head of the Magdalene (after Sandro Botticelli) – Sarah Victoria Turner
17 Resplendent Burne-Jones: the Dujardin photogravure after Chant d'Amour in L'ART (1882) – Stephen Bann

Part IV: Reception studies
18 Rossetti and the limits of revival: the case of Saint Cecilia – Colin Cruise
19 Object(s) of desire: inventing fluid ‘ideal beauty’ in Albert Moore’s A Venus – Rebecca Mellor
20 The ‘unreal aspect’ of art: Frederic Leighton's The Dance and Music, 1881–85 – Ciarán Rua O’Neill
21 Trials, transformation, and the triumph of the soul in the Psyche Chalice of Phoebe Anna Traquair – Sally-Anne Huxtable

Part V: Sculpture studies
22 Watts and the School of Pheidias: The Genius of Greek Poetry – Melissa L Gustin
23 Flaubert’s challenge: Désiré Maurice Ferrary (1852–1904), Salammbô – Caroline Vout
24 Winckelmann's illustrations – Daniel Orrells
25 The statue that enchants the world – Cora Gilroy-Ware

Part VI: Critics and art historiography
26 Botticelli at the Villa Lemmi (and At the Louvre) – Hilary Fraser
27 ‘All the folds of unseemly linen': John Ruskin and the Sistine Chapel – Suzanne Fagence Cooper
28 Sebastian van Storck seeing the world as it really is: Walter Pater’s reluctant Dutch aesthete – Lene Østermark-Johansen

Afterword: Liz and York – Michael White
Published Works of Elizabeth Prettejohn