Recovering Christina Rossetti: Female Community and Incarnational Poetics

By Mary Arseneau

Book Overview

This book re-conceives Christina Rossetti's poetic identity by exposing the androcentric bias inherent in the histories of the Rossetti family and of Pre-Raphaelitism, by turning new attention to the Rossetti women, and by reconstituting a female and religious community for Rossetti's writing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Mary Arseneau investigates how Rossetti's religious faith sustains her poetic practice and authorizes her cultural and aesthetic critique; the result is a re-evaluation and re-contextualization of the whole range of Rossetti's writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349647578
• ISBN13: 9781349647576
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"