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The Culture of Christina Rossetti
Mary Arseneau
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Description for The Culture of Christina Rossetti
Hardcover. Editor(s): Arseneau, Mary; Harrison, Antony H.; Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. Num Pages: 373 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 722.
The 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. 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 ... Read more
The 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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
373
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821412435
SKU
V9780821412435
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About Mary Arseneau
Mary Arseneau is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Antony H. Harrison is Professor of English at North Carolina State University. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is the author of The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siecle Illustrated Books and Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History. She is co-editor of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and ... Read more
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