Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present

A. D. Hope analogy appears Art Gallery artist avalanche become believe canto Carlyle castaway century Christ Christian covenant create cultural code death Deluge depicts describes destroyed destruction drifting drowned Edmund Keeley emblem emphasizes employs essential event example existence experience fact faith Falconer figure forces Gerard Manley Hopkins hope Hopkins human Hymn to Proserpine iconology imaginative instance interpretation intonation J. M. W. Turner journey landscape literary Maldoror man's mariner meaning metaphor modern Museum narrative nature nineteenth nineteenth-century ocean Odysseus Oil on canvas painter painting paradigm paradigmatic perceive perish picture poem poet poetic poetry Pompeii present Raft rainbow religious Robinson Crusoe Romantic sail scene sea disaster ship shipwreck shipwrecked and cast similarly situation of crisis spiritual structure Swinburne symbol Tate Gallery Tennyson topos traditional trans transformation Turner Ulysses vantage-point vessel victims Victorian vision visual voyage Walker Art Gallery waves wreck