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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAlpine, Heather, author.

Series:

Costerus ; Volume 227.

Costerus, ; Volume 227

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Figures

The Emblem and Its Victorian Contexts

“Thoughts towards Nature”: Pre-Raphaelite Emblematics in The Germ

“Wise upbraidings”: Christina Rossetti’s Devotional Emblematics

“How meet beauty?”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Emblem

“Devious symbols”: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Unorthodox Emblematics

“All are types unmeet”: Swinburne and the Limits of the Emblem

Chapter 7Conclusion: What about William?

Back Matter

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-40764-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004407640 DOI