The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti

The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti
Title The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti PDF eBook
Author A. Chapman
Publisher Springer
Pages 224
Release 2000-06-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230286003

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Despite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history. Through an analysis of the posthumous in her work, the construction of 'Christina Rossetti' by her brothers, and the history of reception, this study asks how 'speaking with the dead' can avoid critical ventriloquy. The figure of the mother is offered as a paradigm for theorising a new reading that refuses to exorcise the ghost of 'Christina Rossetti'.

Color

Color
Title Color PDF eBook
Author Christina Rossetti
Publisher The Creative Company
Pages 16
Release 2022-01-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1640004130

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A study in nature-based colors, Christina Rossetti's timeless poem is here represented in vivid, interpretive art by French illustrator Laëtitia Devernay.

Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time

Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time
Title Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time PDF eBook
Author Diane D'Amico
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 212
Release 1999
Genre
ISBN 9780807141465

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Christina Rossetti's Gothic

Christina Rossetti's Gothic
Title Christina Rossetti's Gothic PDF eBook
Author Serena Trowbridge
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 352
Release 2013-08-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1441170448

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The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as 'gothic' and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti's work. Based on new readings of the full range of her writings, from 'Goblin Market' to the devotional poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti's use of Gothic forms and images to consider her as a Gothic writer. Christina Rossetti's Gothic analyses the poet's use of the grotesque and the spectral and the Christian roots and Pre-Raphaelite influences of Rossetti's deployment of Gothic tropes.

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti
Title Christina Rossetti PDF eBook
Author Emma Mason
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 229
Release 2018
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0198723695

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Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded as one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English. While Rossetti has firmly secured her place in the canon, her religious poetry was for a long time either overlooked or considered evidence of a melancholic disposition burdened by faith. Recent scholarship has redressed reductive readings of Christian theology as repressive by rethinking it as a form of compassionate politics. This shift has enabled new readings of Rossetti's work, not simply as a body of significant nineteenth-century devotional literature, but also as a marker of religion's relevance to modern concerns through its reflections on science and materialism, as well as spirituality and mysticism. Emma Mason offers a compelling study of Christina Rossetti, arguing that her poetry, diaries, letters, and devotional commentaries are engaged with both contemporary theological debate and an emergent ecological agenda. In chapters on the Catholic Revival, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, contemporary debates on plant and animal being, and the relationship between grace and apocalypse, Mason reads Rossetti's theology as an argument for spiritual materialism and ecological transformation. She ultimately suggests that Rossetti's life and work captures the experience of faith as one of loving intimacy with the minutiae of creation, a divine body in which all things, material and immaterial, human and nonhuman, divine and embodied, are interconnected.

Selected Poems: Rossetti

Selected Poems: Rossetti
Title Selected Poems: Rossetti PDF eBook
Author Christina Rossetti
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 378
Release 2008-04-24
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0141923679

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This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illuminating introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes.

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness
Title Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness PDF eBook
Author Todd Williams
Publisher Routledge
Pages 265
Release 2019-05-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0429655673

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Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness takes a cognitive ecocritical approach to Rossetti’s writing as it developed throughout her career. This study provides a unique understanding of Rossetti’s identity as an artist through a cognitive model while also engaging significantly with her spiritual relationship to the nonhuman world. Rossetti was a deliberate and conscious creator who used her writing for therapeutic purposes to create, contemplate, maintain, verify, and, revise her identity. Her understanding of her autobiographical self and her place in the world often comes through observations and poetic treatments of the nonhuman. Rossetti, her speakers, and her characters seek spiritual knowledge in the natural world and share this knowledge with an audience. In nature, Rossetti finds evidence for and guidance from a loving God who offers salvation. Her work places a high value on nature from a Christian perspective that puts conservation over renunciation. She frequently uses strategies that have now been identified by Christian environmentalist such as retrieval, ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality. With new readings of popular works like "Goblin Market" and "A Birthday," along with treatments of largely neglected works like Verses (1847) and Rossetti’s devotional writings, Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness offers an understanding of Rossetti’s processes and purposes as a writer and displays new potential for her work in the face of twenty-first-century environmental issues.