Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism - A Heart in Hiding

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jill Muller

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Muller, Muller Jill
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2003
• EAN: 9780415967075
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96707-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 530 g
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic / General