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Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Constance W. Hassett
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Description for Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style analyses the strengths and failures of her poetry, its attention to rhythm and the shifts of diction, its momentum and reserve, and the rationale for its revision. It also explores Rossetti's poetry for children, her reconfiguration of religion and poetry and the influences of female precursors she admired. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Although the cultural and literary influence of Christina Rossetti has recently been widely acknowledged, the belatedness of this critical attention has left wide gaps in our understanding of her poetic contribution. Often focusing solely on her early work and neglecting her later volumes, many critics minimized her relevance by measuring her stature through either her early poems or her relationships with well-known Victorian literary figures. In Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style, Constance W. Hassett argues against this diminishment by reopening Rossetti's canon, challenging both critics and readers to trade their silent appreciation of her most familiar verse for a ... Read more
Although the cultural and literary influence of Christina Rossetti has recently been widely acknowledged, the belatedness of this critical attention has left wide gaps in our understanding of her poetic contribution. Often focusing solely on her early work and neglecting her later volumes, many critics minimized her relevance by measuring her stature through either her early poems or her relationships with well-known Victorian literary figures. In Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style, Constance W. Hassett argues against this diminishment by reopening Rossetti's canon, challenging both critics and readers to trade their silent appreciation of her most familiar verse for a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813923390
SKU
V9780813923390
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About Constance W. Hassett
Constance W. Hassett is Professor of English at Fordham University. She is the author of The Elusive Self in the Poetry of Robert Browning.
Reviews for Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
This much-needed book illuminates the pleasures and challenges of reading Rossetti's poetry. Constance Hassett's careful and caring attention to the stylistic modulations that Rossetti introduced at significant junctures in her poetic development is exemplary; for she instructs us in how to listen to a poet who was herself attentive both to the voices of others and to the tonal shifts ... Read more