Christina Rossetti's Gothic

Christina Rossetti's Gothic
Author: Serena Trowbridge
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441114432

The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as ‘gothic' and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti's work. Based on new readings of the full range of her writings, from ‘Goblin Market' to the devotional poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti's use of Gothic forms and images to consider her as a Gothic writer. Christina Rossetti's Gothic analyses the poet's use of the grotesque and the spectral and the Christian roots and Pre-Raphaelite influences of Rossetti's deployment of Gothic tropes.

Women and Gothic

Women and Gothic
Author: Maria Purves
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1443857939

This small collection of essays explores women’s relationship with the gothic: a relationship which has, since its eighteenth-century beginnings, always been complex. These essays demonstrate some of the scope and diversity of that relationship, and much of its intensity: the ingenuity and genius employed, the anguish experienced and the risks taken, in its evolution. Genuinely representative of gothic’s flexibility and presence in everything from novels to architecture, from surrealist art to hypertext fiction, this volume brings new primary sources and topics to the reader’s attention, and will be of interest to anyone who wants to expand and challenge their understanding of how and why women engage with the gothic.

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness
Author: Todd Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429655673

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness takes a cognitive ecocritical approach to Rossetti’s writing as it developed throughout her career. This study provides a unique understanding of Rossetti’s 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. She frequently uses strategies that have now been identified by Christian environmentalist such as retrieval, ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality. With new readings of popular works like "Goblin Market" and "A Birthday," along with treatments of largely neglected works like Verses (1847) and Rossetti’s devotional writings, Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness offers an understanding of Rossetti’s processes and purposes as a writer and displays new potential for her work in the face of twenty-first-century environmental issues.

The Demon & the Damozel

The Demon & the Damozel
Author: Suzanne Maureen Waldman
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2008
Genre: Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN: 0821418165

Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the psyche, this title offers a reading of the Victorian siblings' literature and visual arts. It views poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" and "Venus Verticordia."

Goblin Market

Goblin Market
Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1905
Genre: Goblins
ISBN:

Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-century Women's Poetry

Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-century Women's Poetry
Author: Barbara Garlick
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9789042013001

From the contents: Virginia BLAIN: Be these his daughters?: Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and disruption in a patriarchal poetics of women's autobiography. - Meg TASKER: 'Aurora Leigh': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel approach to the woman poet. - E. WARWICK SLINN: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the problem of female agency. - Debra FRIED: In Daisy's lane: variants and personification in Emily Dickinson.

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Melissa Edmundson Makala
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708325653

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.

A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire

A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire
Author: Sarah Heaton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350087939

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Among the key issues identified by its authors is the recognition that in any given society male and female hair tend to be opposites (when male hair is generally short, women's is long); that hair is a marker of age and stage of life (children and young people have longer, less confined hairstyles; adult hair is far more controlled); hair can be used to identify the 'other' in terms of race and ethnicity but also those who stand outside social norms such as witches and mad women. The chapters in A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity cover the following topics: religion and ritualized belief, self and society, fashion and adornment, production and practice, health and hygiene, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and social status, and cultural representations.

My Ladys Soul

My Ladys Soul
Author: Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781906469627

Edited collection of Elizabeth Siddall's extant poems, including critical analysis, biographical commentary, and contextual material. Also features illustrations, some by Siddall herself.

The Written and the Visual

The Written and the Visual
Author: Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3847012533

The author investigates the points of contact between literature, visual arts and feminist criticism by offering fresh readings of selected Romantic and Victorian poems about women and a discussion of their wide-ranging visual history – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. The innovative feature of the project lies in its scope and merit: extensive readings of 19th century poetry, informed by carefully chosen critical approaches, are followed by a rich overview and analysis of visual renderings of the poems in question. Łuczyńska-Hołdys has succeeded in bringing to light previously unknown or undiscussed works, and reappraised many well-known paintings and illustrations.