Emblematic strategies in Pre-Raphaelite literature / by Heather McAlpine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAlpine, Heather, author.

Series:

Costerus ; new ser., v. 227.

Costerus new series, 0165-9618 ; volume 227

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

Emblems in literature.

Pre-Raphaelitism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 319 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]

Summary:

"In this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement's engagements with ontology, religion, representation, and politics. The emblem is a discursive practice that promises to stabilize language in the face of doubt, making it especially interesting as a site of conflicting responses to Victorian crises of representation. Through analyses of works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.C. Swinburne, and William Morris, Emblematic Strategies examines the Pre-Raphaelite movement's common goal of conveying "truth" while highlighting differences in its adherents' approaches to that task"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004407633

9004407634

OCLC:

1104071221