02706nam 2200433 450 991079397470332120230105201959.090-04-40764-210.1163/9789004407640(CKB)4100000009600328(nllekb)BRILL9789004407640(MiAaPQ)EBC6110470(EXLCZ)99410000000960032820200412d2020 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierEmblematic strategies in Pre-Raphaelite literature /by Heather McAlpineLeiden ;Boston :Brill Rodopi,[2020]©20201 online resourceCosterus, ;Volume 22790-04-40763-4 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.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.Costerus ;Volume 227.English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcEnglish poetryHistory and criticismTheory, etc.821.809 McAlpine Heather1582926MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793974703321Emblematic strategies in Pre-Raphaelite literature3865692UNINA