Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding (Studies in Major Literary Authors, V. 27)

This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism. 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. Jill Muller. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 165-177) And Index.