Recovering Christina Rossetti
Subtitle: female community and incarnational poetics
By: Mary Arseneau.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism.; Female friendship in literature.; Community in literature.; Feminism in literature.; Women in literature.
Description: Mary Arseneau re-conceives Christina Rossetti's poetic identity by exposing the androcentric bias inherent in the histories of the Rosetti family and of Pre-Raphaelitism, by turning new attention to the Rosetti women, and by reconstituting a female and religious community for Rossetti's writing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index.