Emblematic strategies in Pre-Raphaelite literature /
"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 ontolo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2020]
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| Series: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 227. |
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 319 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004407633 9004407634 |
| ISSN: | 0165-9618 ; |