Taking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, Surface Tension reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic moment--charged, variegated, intensely focused--as capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture, offering new insights into the debt we owe to the most radical of the Victorians.
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Taking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, Surface Tension reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic moment--charged, variegated, intensely focused--as capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture, offering new insights into the debt we owe to the most radical of the Victorians.
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