The Achievement of Christina Rossetti

The Achievement of Christina Rossetti
Title The Achievement of Christina Rossetti PDF eBook
Author David A. Kent
Publisher Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Pages 392
Release 1987
Genre Women and literature
ISBN

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The Achievement of Christina Rossetti

The Achievement of Christina Rossetti
Title The Achievement of Christina Rossetti PDF eBook
Author David A. Kent
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 385
Release 2019-05-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1501745948

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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.

The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti
Title The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti PDF eBook
Author Christina Rossetti
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 554
Release 1986-02-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780807112465

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Born in 1830, Christina Rossetti began composing verse at the age of eleven and continued to write for the remaining fifty-three years of her life. Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, himself a poet and painter, soon recognized her genius and urged her to publish her poems. By the time of her death in 1894, Christina had written more than eleven hundred poems and had published over nine hundred of them. Although she is regarded as the greatest woman poet of the Victorian period, there has not been until now and authoritative edition of her poetry. In this second volume of the three-volume The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti, R.W. Crump continues the editorial standards she established n Volume I, published in 1979. She gives the reader a comprehensive text with notes revealing Christina’s process of composition and revision and her painstaking concern for the technical details of her work. The variant readings in the notes are taken from extant manuscripts, individual poems as published or privately printed before being incorporated into her published collections, and all the English and American editions of her poems through William Michael Rossetti’s The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1904). A special feature of both Volumes I and II is a complete list of holographs and their locations. Volume II contains Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872), A Pageant and Other Poems (1881), and Verses (1893), as well as the poems added to these volumes after their original publication. Volume III contains poems Christina published but did not include in any of her collections as well as poems that have not previously appeared in print.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Title The Cambridge Companion to English Poets PDF eBook
Author Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 581
Release 2011-01-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521874343

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This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti
Title Christina Rossetti PDF eBook
Author Dolores Rosenblum
Publisher SIU Press
Pages 280
Release 1986
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780809312696

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Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection. Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossetti's works and places them in the context of her life. Rosenblum shows that what was ostensibly devotional, moral, and loveless, was actually what Luce Irigaray calls "mimetism," a subtle parody and diversion of the male tradition of literature. Rossetti's work was unified, Rosenblum argues, because she was a deliberate poet, and by accepting the "burden of womanhood," she played out what men only symbolized as female in their art. By her mimicry and revision of the male tradition of literature, Christina Rossetti engaged the patriarchal tradition in ways that make it usable for the female experience, and that provide a critique of the male objectification of women in art. -- From publisher's description.

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 and the Bible

Christina Rossetti and the Bible
Title Christina Rossetti and the Bible PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Ludlow
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 271
Release 2014-10-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 147251095X

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Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a' Kempis, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Donne and describes how Rossetti adapted the teaching of the Ancient and Patristic Fathers and medieval mystics. It also considers the interfaces that are established between her devotional poems and the anthology and periodical pieces alongside which they were published throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century.