Christina Rossettis Environmental Consciousness - 9780367112042

Taylor & Francis

Christina Rossetti\u2019s Environmental Consciousness takes a cognitive ecocritical approach to Rossetti\u2019s writing as it developed throughout her career. This study provides a unique understanding of Rossetti\u2019s identity as an artist through a cognitive model while also engaging significantly with her spiritual relationship to the nonhuman world. Rossetti was a deliberate and conscious creator who used her writing for therapeutic purposes to create, contemplate, maintain, verify, and, revise her identity. Her understanding of her autobiographical self and her place in the world often comes through observations and poetic treatments of the nonhuman. Rossetti, her speakers, and her characters seek spiritual knowledge in the natural world and share this knowledge with an audience. In nature, Rossetti finds evidence for and guidance from a loving God who offers salvation. Her work places a high value on nature from a Christian perspective that puts conservation over renunciation.