| Description |
xxii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Speaking unlikenesses: the double text in Christina Rossetti's "After death" and "Remember" / Margaret Reynolds -- "May my great love avail me": Christina Rossetti and Dante / Mary Arseneau -- "Monna innominata" and Sonnets from the Portuguese: sonnet traditions and spiritual trajectories / Marjorie Stone -- Tasting the "Fruit forbidden": gender, intertextuality, and Christina Rossetti's Goblin market / Catherine Maxwell -- The political economy of fruit: Goblin market / Richard Menke -- Visualizing the fantastic subject: Goblin market and the gaze / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- "Frogs and fat toads": Christina Rossetti and the significance of the nonhuman / Kathryn Burlinson -- Astronomy of the invisible: contexts for Christina Rossetti's heavenly parables / Linda E. Marshall -- Speaking likenesses: hearing the lesson / Julia Briggs -- Father's place, mother's space: identity, Italy, and the maternal Christina Rossetti's poetry / Alison Chapman -- Rossetti's cold women: irony and liminal fantasy in the death lyrics / Susan Conley -- Dying to be a poetess: the conundrum of Christina Rossetti / Margaret Linley. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index. |
| Subject |
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
| Added Author |
Arseneau, Mary.
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Harrison, Antony H.
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Janzen Kooistra, Lorraine, 1953-
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| ISBN |
0821412434 alkaline paper |
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