Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding

ISBN-13: 9780415967075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 200 str.

Jill Muller; Muller Muller;Muller

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Although largely unknown in his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins was, Jill Muller contends, the heart in hiding of Victorian Catholicism. Investigations of Hopkins's spirituality have too often detached his beliefs from their local habitation in a newly industrialized, historically anti-Catholic and increasingly secular England. This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context by exploring his responses to the writings of his Catholic contemporaries, and by situating the preoccupations, dramas and disappointments of his life in the wider setting of Victorian Catholic culture. Drawing on historical and cultural studies of Victorian Catholicism, along with Hopkins's writings, Muller shows how the melancholy trajectory of the Jesuit poet's career mimics the deflation of Catholic hopes during the second half of Victoria's reign, as well as the turn within the Roman Church of England from a triumphalist rhetoric of conversion to a more introverted and insular spirituality.

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Contents Acknowledgments Endnote Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Newman, Hopkins, and Heaven-Haven: A Literary Conversion Chapter Two: One 'fetch' in him: Hopkins's Ultramontane Vision in The Wreck of the Deutschland Chapter Three: These things were here and but the beholder wanting: Hopkins's Nature Sonnets and the Victorian Catholic Response to Evolution Chapter Four: The Lost are like this: Victorian Catholic Eschatology and Hopkins's Dublin Poems Notes Bibliography Index

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Jill Muller