The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts

by Mary Arseneau

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821412434
• ISBN13: 9780821412435
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"