| Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature Contributor(s): McAlpine, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004407634 ISBN-13: 9789004407633 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $145.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Art | European - Reference |
| Series: Costerus New |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 331 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |