The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts

The Culture of Christina RossettiFemale Poetics and Victorian Contexts\nAuthor(s): Mary Arseneau, Antony H. Harrison, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821412435, 978-0821412435\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n 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-k.