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.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding by Jill Muller
This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.
Table 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
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding by Jill Muller
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