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

• Autore: McAlpine Heather
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Rodopi, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 821.809
• Soggetto topico: English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Emblematic strategies in Pre-Raphaelite literature
• ISBN: 90-04-40764-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813099603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Costerus ; ; Volume 227.