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In this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement's engagements with ontology, religion, representation, and politics. The emblem is a discursive practice that promises to stabilize language in the face of doubt, making it especially interesting as a site of conflicting responses to Victorian crises of representation. Through analyses of works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.C. Swinburne, and William Morris, Emblematic Strategies examines the Pre-Raphaelite movement's common goal of conveying truth while highlighting differences in its adherents' approaches to that task.

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Heather McAlpine has [...] managed to show the pivotal role emblems played in the development and emancipation of these artists' aesthetics. For this reason, her book will be of great interest to scholars and students alike who want to have a different take on the Victorian aesthetics and a fresh insight in the literary analysis of Pre-Raphaelite illustrated and unillustrated works. - Cezara Bobeica, University of Strasbourg, France in Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 61 2020 pp. 345-349

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Heather McAlpine, Ph.D. (University of Ottawa, 2009), is an Associate Professor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. She has published articles on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and The Germ.

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