Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature

Heather McAlpine

ISBN 10: 9004407634 / ISBN 13: 9789004407633

Published by Brill, NL, 2019

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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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004407634
• ISBN 13: 9789004407633
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 16W x 2.29H x 23.11D centimeters 16 centimeters width by 2.29 centimeters height by 23.11 centimeters depth
• Weight: 648 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Heather McAlpine, Ph.D. (University of Ottawa, 2009), is an Associate Professor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. She has published articles on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and The Germ.