Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature

By Heather McAlpine

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004407634
• ISBN13: 9789004407633
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"