Gerard Manley Hopkins in context / edited by Martin Dubois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dubois, Martin, 1984- editor.

Series:

Literature in Context Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

Christian poetry, English--19th century--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative British poets of the nineteenth century. This book provides an authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing. Consisting of thirty-eight essays by leading scholars, the book covers topics that have long attracted scholarly attention while also responding to recent critical trends. It considers Hopkins's formal innovations alongside his theological and philosophical ideas. Chapters examine his Victorian aesthetic and cultural contexts as well as the significance of his ecological imagination and response to environmental degradation. Hopkins's poetry was not widely known until the 1930s, and the book closes by discussing the distinctive nature of its reception and influence. Informed by original research but accessibly written, the essays enable a fresh engagement with the originality of Hopkins's writing and thought."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Martin Dubois

Part I : Places : 1. London / Jude V. Nixon ; 2. Oxford / Lesley Higgins ; 3. Wales / Daniel Westover ; 4. Northern England / Martin Dubois ; 5. Ireland / Matthew Campbell

Part II : Aesthetic and cultural contexts : 6. Visual culture / Elizabeth Helsinger ; 7. Classics / R. K. R. Thornton ; 8. Anglo-Saxonism / Joseph Phelan ; 9. Music / Francis O'Gorman

Part III : Religious, theological, and philosophical contexts : 10. Tractarianism / Peter Groves ; 11. Ancient Greek Philosophy / A. J. Nickerson ; 12. The Bible / Michael Wheeler ; 13. Victorian Roman Catholicism / Rebekah Lamb ; 14. Jesuit life and spirituality / Philip Endean, SJ ; 15. Scholastic theology / Trent Pomplun ; 16. Sacramentalism / Bernadette Waterman Ward

Part IV : Nature, science, and the environment : 17. Ecology / Joshua King ; 18. Environmental degradation / Julia F. Saville ; 19. Energy physics / Daniel Brown ; 20. Industry and technology / Kirstie Blair

Part V : Gender, sexuality, and the body : 21. Queerness and homosociality / Seán Hewitt ; 22. Masculinity and the labouring body / Fraser Riddell ; 23. Femininity and martyrdom / Amanda Paxton ; 24. Eroticism / Duc Dau

Part VI : Form, genre, and poetics : 25. Rhythm / Meredith Martin ; 26. Language / Veronica Alfano ; 27. Address / Jane Wright ; 28. Syntax / Andrew Hodgson ; 29. Rhyme / James Williams ; 30. Ode / Bernadette Guthrie ; 31. Sonnet / Michael D. Hurley ; 32. Letters / Summer J. Star ; 33. Journal prose / Vidyan Ravinthiran ; 34. Sermons / Adrian Grafe

Part VII : Reception and influence : 35. Modernist criticism and poetry / Finn Fordham ; 36. Poetic legacies post 1950 / Emily Taylor Merriman ; 37. Theological influence / Devon Abts ; 38. The anthropocene / Daniel Williams.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

9781009192583

1009192582

9781009192590

1009192590

9781009183185 (electronic book)

1009183184