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Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature

Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature

McAlpine, Heather

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceEuropean Art

ISBN10: 9004407634
ISBN13: 9789004407633
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 7 2019
Pages: 319
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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