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"A concise and authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing, this volume covers traditional areas of scholarly focus as well as newer trends in criticism. It provides both an invaluable resource for undergraduates and various points of departure for future research"--
List of contents
Introduction Martin Dubois; Part I. Places: 1. London Jude V. Nixon; 2. Oxford Lesley Higgins; 3. Wales Daniel Westover; 4. Northern England Martin Dubois; 5. Ireland Matthew Campbell; Part II. Aesthetic and Cultural Contexts: 6. Visual culture Elizabeth Helsinger; 7. Classics R. K. R. Thornton; 8. Anglo-Saxonism Joseph Phelan; 9. Music Francis O'Gorman; Part III. Religious, Theological and Philosophical Contexts: 10. Tractarianism Peter Groves; 11. Ancient Greek philosophy A. J. Nickerson; 12. The Bible Michael Wheeler; 13. Victorian Roman Catholicism Rebekah Lamb; 14. Jesuit life and spirituality Philip Endean, S. J.; 15. Scholastic theology Trent Pomplun; 16. Sacramentalism Bernadette Waterman Ward; Part IV. Nature, Science and The Environment: 17. Ecology Joshua King; 18. Environmental degradation Julia F. Saville; 19. Energy physics Daniel Brown; 20. Industry and technology Kirstie Blair; Part V. Gender, Sexuality and The Body: 21. Queerness and homosociality Seán Hewitt; 22. Masculinity and the labouring body Fraser Riddell; 23. Femininity and martyrdom Amanda Paxton; 24. Eroticism Duc Dau; Part VI. Form, Genre and Poetics: 25. Rhythm Meredith Martin; 26. Language Veronica Alfano; 27. Address Jane Wright; 28. Syntax Andrew Hodgson; 29. Rhyme James Williams; 30. Ode Bernadette Guthrie; 31. Sonnet Michael D. Hurley; 32. Letters Summer J. Star; 33. Journal prose Vidyan Ravinthiran; 34. Sermons Adrian Grafe; Part VII. Reception and Influence: 35. Modernist criticism and poetry Finn Fordham; 36. Poetic legacies post-1950 Emily Taylor Merriman; 37. Theological influence Devon Abts; 38. The Anthropocene Daniel Williams; Further reading; Index.
About the author
Martin Dubois is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. His book Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. He is the author of the chapter on Hopkins in The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry (2013).
Summary
Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative British poets of the nineteenth century. This book provides an authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing. Consisting of thirty-eight essays by leading scholars, the book covers topics that have long attracted scholarly attention while also responding to recent critical trends. It considers Hopkins's formal innovations alongside his theological and philosophical ideas. Chapters examine his Victorian aesthetic and cultural contexts as well as the significance of his ecological imagination and response to environmental degradation. Hopkins's poetry was not widely known until the 1930s, and the book closes by discussing the distinctive nature of its reception and influence. Informed by original research but accessibly written, the essays enable a fresh engagement with the originality of Hopkins's writing and thought.
Foreword
A concise and authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing.
