The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts - Hardcover

Arseneau, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821412434 ISBN 13: 9780821412435

Verlag: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999

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Reseña del editor:

The Culture of Christina Rossetti explores a "new" Christina Rossetti as she emerges from the scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural context in which she lived and wrote. The essays in this collection demonstrate how the recluse, saint, and renunciatory spinster of former studies was in fact an active participant in her society's attempt to grapple with new developments in aesthetics, theology, science, economics, and politics. The volume examines Rossetti's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives in order to reevaluate her place in the Victorian world of art, literature, and ideas. The essays offer a radical rethinking of her best-known poems, retrieve neglected works, establish the diversity of her writing, and reposition Rossetti within a canon continually under formation. Contributing to the ongoing retrieval of the nineteenth-century woman poet, The Culture of Christina Rossetti highlights Rossetti's responses to both male and female literary traditions and explores her incorporation and revision of literary influences from medieval Italian sources to contemporary writers.

Biografía del autor:

Mary Arseneau is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Antony H. Harrison is Professor of English at North Carolina State University. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is the author of The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Books and Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History. She is co-editor of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts and The Yellow Nineties Online. She teaches at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

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• Verlag: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0821412434
• ISBN 13: 9780821412435
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374