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- Title
"By there comes a listless stranger": Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Epithalamion" as a Poem of Queer (Non)performance.
- Authors
O'Connor, Eugene
- Abstract
The article focuses on Gerard Manley Hopkin's "Epithalamion" as a poem of queer (non)performance. It mentions that in that it both does and does not perform the function of the Greco-Roman epithalamion, which was meant to celebrate a public occasion between a man and a woman. It also mentions about the private ceremony that takes place within the secluded grove subverts the authority of the traditional wedding, which encodes publicly sanctioned forms of masculinity and femininity.
- Subjects
HOPKIN, Gerard Manley; EPITHALAMIA; MARRIAGE; MASCULINITY; FEMININITY
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2020.0004