Gerard Manley Hopkins And The Victorian Visual World

Author : Catherine Phillips
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191528194

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World by Catherine Phillips Pdf

Gerard Manley Hopkins initially planned to become a poet-artist. For five years he trained his eye, learned about contemporary art and architecture, and made friends in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Phillips, whose knowledge of Hopkins's poems is expert, uses letters, new archival material, and contemporary publications to reconstruct the visual world Hopkins knew between 1862 and 1889, and especially in the 1860s, with its illustrated journals, art exhibitions, Gothic architecture, photographic shows, and changing art criticism. Phillips identifies three artistic contexts for the Hopkins's life: his childhood circle of artistic relatives who were important in shaping his early vision; his friends at university and the criticism he absorbed while there that inflected his view as a young man; and the mature religious beliefs which came to govern his understanding of a visual world interconnected with an eternal one. With chapters devoted to Hopkins own drawings, and to visual theories of the time, Phillips is able to suggests fresh links between this visual world and the startling originality of Hopkins's mature writing that will alter radically our understanding of Hopkins's practice as a poet.

Author : Catherine Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199230808

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World by Catherine Phillips Pdf

In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Phillips uses letters, new archival material, and contemporary publications to reconstruct the visual world Gerard Manley Hopkins knew between 1862 and 1889 - with its illustrated journals, art exhibitions, Gothic architecture, photographic shows, and changing art criticism - and to show how it was connected to the startling originality of his writing.

Author : Dennis Sobolev
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813218557

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The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Dennis Sobolev Pdf

For the first time in almost half a century, the world of Hopkins is examined as an indivisible whole. The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins is a synthetic study of Hopkins's writings, written within a framework of semiotic phenomenology.

Author : Catherine Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015074262695

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Visual World by Catherine Phillips Pdf

In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Phillips uses letters, new archival material, and contemporary publications to reconstruct the visual world Gerard Manley Hopkins knew between 1862 and 1889 - with its illustrated journals, art exhibitions, Gothic architecture, photographic shows, and changing art criticism - and to show how it was connected to the startling originality of his writing.

Author : Isobel Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317688808

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Victorian Poetry by Isobel Armstrong Pdf

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as ‘a moralised form of romantic verse' and unearthed its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute new edition, Armstrong provides an entirely new preface that notes the key advances in the criticism of Victorian poetry since her classic work was first published in 1993. A new chapter on the alternative fin de siècle sees Armstrong discuss Michael Field, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Meynell and a selection of Hardy lyrics. The extensive bibliography acts as a key resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Angus Easson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136854699

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Gerard Manley Hopkins by Angus Easson Pdf

Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period. Experimental and idiosyncratic, his work remains important for any student of nineteenth-century literature and culture. This guide to Hopkins’ life and work offers: a detailed account of Hopkins life and creative development an extensive introduction to Hopkins’ poems, their critical history and the many interpretations of his work cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hopkins’ work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.

Author : Kumiko Tanabe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443882422

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetics of Fancy by Kumiko Tanabe Pdf

This book explores the poetics of “fancy” in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetics. It sheds new light on this concept, which is described positively in Hopkins’s poetics and later becomes the essence of his idiosyncratic concept of “inscape”, as shown here. Chapter One discusses the influence of Coleridge and Ruskin on Hopkins’s poetics of fancy, Hopkins’s experiments in the language of inspiration produced by fancy before his conversion to Catholicism, his idea of inscape as revealed by fancy, and the relation between his fancy and the aesthetics of Romantic poets such as Keats and Wordsworth. Chapter Two focuses on the concept of fancy in Hopkins’s predecessors, William Shakespeare and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who, along with Coleridge and Ruskin, had a major influence on the writer, leading him to pen the play “Floris in Italy” and the sonnet series “The Beginning of the End” in order to experiment with the language of inspiration which he argued only fancy could produce. This chapter also discusses Hopkins’s interest in J. E. Millais and the impact of the Pre-Raphaelites in the development of his poetics of fancy, Hopkins’s fancy as metalanguage, the contrast between his fancy and the impressionism of Walter Pater, and the role of fancy in Hopkins’s sonnets. Chapter Three treats Hopkins’s conversion to Catholicism and his views on Catholic art, including his interest in William Butterfield and the Gothic Revival, as well as the abrupt parallelism between Christ and fancy in “The Wreck of the Deutschland”. Hopkins’s poetic diction is a condensed evocation of art and nature with fancy as the source of his inspiration. His metaphors are not ordinary figures expressing the attributes of things, but are autonomous and have their nature within themselves. Hopkins’s poetic idiosyncrasy is generated by the parallelism between distinctive and autonomous images which repeat the surprise and ecstasy of the poet contemplating art and nature. He endeavoured to achieve the poetry of inspiration with his emphasis on fancy as the basis of his poetic diction so as to reinstate it as the source of a “new Realism”. Hopkins’s fancy foregrounds the discontinuous nature of a new poetic diction, which demonstrates unfettered combinations between autonomous images and signs in metalanguage in advance of semiotic literary theories.

Author : Martin Dubois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107180451

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience by Martin Dubois Pdf

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Author : Jill Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135886431

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism by Jill Muller Pdf

This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.

Author : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199534005

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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins Pdf

This volume, the latest in Oxford's edition of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, presents Hopkins at his most private and self-considering: there are mundane memoranda about neckties to purchase or letters to write, but also exacting revisions of poems. There are entries of quiet rapture, his attention caught by the unexpected sight of a bluebell or "some delicate flying shafted ashes...between which the sun sent straight bright slenderish panes of silver sunbeams down the slant towards the eye." Paintings, sculptures, and works of literature are stringently assessed, his aesthetic principles freely exercised. There are also nightmares relived; undergraduate "sins" unsparingly recorded; "signs" of heavenly mercy carefully noted; small acts of "kindness" from others, both unexpected and restorative, gratefully acknowledged. Like most diarists, Hopkins was committed to life-writing practices not simply to itemize his daily activities, but to explore the possibilities of textual "selving." The space of the page was the opportunity, incitement, and necessity of reporting what had been seen, what had been felt, what had been feared, in order both to memorialize the experiences and to make possible subsequent re-readings. Thus, the diaries and notebooks are a summary of the present and an investment in-even a prediction of-future responses. The entries extend from September 1863, during his second term at Oxford, until February 1875, while studying theology as a Jesuit in his beloved Wales, and from February 1884 until July 1885, while Hopkins was living at a "third remove" in Dublin, Ireland as a Classics Professor at University College and Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland.

Author : Paul L. Mariani
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0670020311

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Gerard Manley Hopkins by Paul L. Mariani Pdf

An analysis of the writing life of the nineteenth-century English poet documents his experiences as a Jesuit priest, his struggles with depression, and the spiritual journey that informed his beliefs. 12,500 first printing.

Author : Aakanksha Virkar Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429013829

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The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Aakanksha Virkar Yates Pdf

Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the seventeenth-century spiritual emblem, this book demonstrates the ways in which the Wreck deliberately constructs and conceals a mystical and contemplative narrative. Typology and allegory are some of the important hermeneutic tools used in this re-reading of Hopkins, relating the poet to the discursive tradition surrounding the Old Testament Song of Songs, the philosophical theology of the Greek Fathers, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the meditative and visual tradition of the baroque heart-emblem. On the centenary of the publication of Hopkins’s poems, this book places the writer firmly within a mystical tradition, necessitating a fundamental reconsideration of the legacy of this major Victorian poet.

Author : Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton
Publisher : Sunderland, Eng. : Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland Arts Centre
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019162133

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All My Eyes See by Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton Pdf

Author : Ann C. Colley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134766451

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Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain by Ann C. Colley Pdf

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.

Author : Anne-Marie Millim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317012610

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The Victorian Diary by Anne-Marie Millim Pdf

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either coveted or feared. Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres to show that well-known writers and public figures of both sexes exploited the diary's self-reflexive, diurnal structure in order to enhance their creativity and establish themselves as authors. Their object was to manage, rather than to indulge or repress, their emotions for the purposes of perfecting their observational and critical skills. Reading these diaries as literary works in their own right, Millim analyses their crucial role in the construction of authorship. By relating these Victorian writers' diaries to their publications and to contemporary works of cultural criticism, Millim shows the multifarious ways in which diaristic practices, emotional management and professional output corresponded to experiences of the literary marketplace and to nineteenth-century codes of propriety.