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Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance (Ad Feminam: Women and Literature)
Ms. Dolores Rosenblum Phd
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Description for Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance (Ad Feminam: Women and Literature)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.
Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossetti’s works and places them in the context of her life. Rosenblum shows that what was ostensibly devotional, moral, and loveless, was actually what Luce Irigaray calls “mimetism,” a subtle parody and subversion of the male tradition of literature.
Only with the coming of feminist criticism can Rossetti be meaningfully re-evaluated. Rosenblum calls Rossetti’s works the “poetry of endurance,” stating that it is similar, and at times identical, to the ... Read more
Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time. Her poetry was devotional, moral, and spoke of frustrated affection.
Dolores Rosenblum presents a fresh reading of Rossetti’s works and places them in the context of her life. Rosenblum shows that what was ostensibly devotional, moral, and loveless, was actually what Luce Irigaray calls “mimetism,” a subtle parody and subversion of the male tradition of literature.
Only with the coming of feminist criticism can Rossetti be meaningfully re-evaluated. Rosenblum calls Rossetti’s works the “poetry of endurance,” stating that it is similar, and at times identical, to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809312696
SKU
V9780809312696
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About Ms. Dolores Rosenblum Phd
Dolores Rosenblum has taught at SUNY, Albany and Indiana University. Her critical essays have appeared in such journals as Victorian Studies and Victorian Poetry and she has held both a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship.
Reviews for Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance (Ad Feminam: Women and Literature)
The book is original in establishing and tracing the recurring female personae and the essential motifs that pervade the poems."—Carole Silver, Victorian Poetry