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The Achievement of Christina Rossetti / ed. by David A. Kent.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.8
LOC classification:
  • PR5238.A55 1987
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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