TY - BOOK AU - Bentley,D.M.R. AU - Bump,Jerome AU - Cantalupo,Catherine Musella AU - D’Amico,Diane AU - Flowers,Betty S. AU - Harrison,Antony H. AU - Kent,David A. AU - McGann,Jerome J. AU - McGillis,Roderick AU - Schofield,Linda AU - Shaw,W.David AU - Stanwood,P.G. AU - Tennyson,G.B. AU - Whitla,William TI - The Achievement of Christina Rossetti SN - 9781501745942 AV - PR5238.A55 1987 U1 - 821.8 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Philosophy KW - PHILOSOPHY / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; I. ROSSETTI: POET --; Poet of Mystery: The Art of Christina Rossetti --; The Meretricious and the Meritorious in Goblin Market: A Conjecture and an Analysis --; Questioning the Convention: Christina Rossetti's Sonnet Sequence "Monna Innominata" --; II. ROSSETTI: WOMAN ARTIST AND PROSE WRITER --; The Kingly Self: Rossetti as Woman Artist --; Eve, Mary, and Mary Magdalene: Christina Rossetti's Feminine Triptych --; Eighteen Early Letters by Christina Rossetti --; Simple Surfaces: Christina Rossetti's Work for Children --; Christina Rossetti's Devotional Prose --; III. ROSSETTI: PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES --; "By thought, word, and deed": George Herbert and Christina Rossetti --; Christina Rossetti: The Devotional Poet and the Rejection of Romantic Nature --; Being and Understanding: Devotional Poetry of Christina Rossetti and the Tractarians --; Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood --; Afterword: Love God and Die-Christina Rossetti and the Future --; Contributors --; Index to the Writings of Christina Rossetti --; General Index; restricted access N2 - Bringing to bear a variety of perspectives on the poetry, prose, and letters of a writer whose work is just now beginning to emerge from critical neglect, this collection edited by David A. Kent should play an important role in the re-evaluation of Christina Rossetti. It consists of fifteen essays by gifted Victorian scholars who represent a wide range of methodologies and critical concerns, and it offers alternatives to the autobiographical approach that has limited appreciation of Rossetti the writer UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745942 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501745942 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501745942/original ER -