Publication details

To Cremate or Bury: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and the Biographical Postmortem

Authors

KAYLOR Michael Matthew

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Second Prague Conference on Linguistics and Literary Studies (14 May 2004) Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords Biography; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Coventry Patmore; Sponsa Dei; Victorian Literature; Eroticism
Description This paper considers the problems that biographers face due to a lack of directly biographical evidence, particularly the gaps that result from manuscript burning. This issue is elaborated in terms of the destruction of manuscripts relating to Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as the context of Coventry Patmore's destruction of his own 'Sponsa Dei', a prose work that decadently merged the sacred with the profane.

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