Confessing the Flesh: Reading Hopkins in Context

by Lesley Higgins

A new theoretical reading of the renowned poet and Jesuit priest

Confessing the Flesh is an expansive, interdisciplinary analysis of how aesthetic and religious discourses function in dialogue in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the celebrated Victorian-era poet and Catholic priest. Through Hopkins, Lesley Higgins reveals how religion was expressed, lived, and debated in the nineteenth century. Both a comprehensive analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813953219
• ISBN13: 9780813953212
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 318 Pages