Title:
Christina Rossetti's gothic / Serena Trowbridge.
Bloomsbury Literary Studies
Author:
Trowbridge, Serena.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on referencing -- Introduction -- The critical context -- The problem of gothic -- Tractarianism and gothic -- Poetry and gothic -- The spectrality of Rossettian gothic -- Spectrality as a mode of criticism -- Teh spectral and the psychological -- Spectrality and writing -- Rossetti's spectres -- Early influences : Rossetti and the gothic of Maturin -- The wild Irish boy -- Women -- Melmoth the wanderer -- Rossetti, Ruskin and the moral grotesque -- The grotesque -- The Ruskinian grotesque -- The Rossettian grotesque -- 'Goblin market' and gothic -- The grotesque in 'Goblin market' -- Fallen women -- Doubles -- Gothic and fairy tale -- Monsters and vampires -- Shadows of heaven : Rossetti's porse works -- Called to be saints -- Time flies -- Letter and spirit -- The face fo the deep -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"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." -- Publisher website.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9781441114433 (hbk.)
1441114432 (hbk.)
Subject:
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Series:
Bloomsbury Literary Studies
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on referencing -- The critical context -- The problem of gothic -- Tractarianism and gothic -- Poetry and gothic -- Spectrality as a mode of criticism -- Teh spectral and the psychological -- Spectrality and writing -- Rossetti's spectres -- The wild Irish boy -- Women -- Melmoth the wanderer -- The grotesque -- The Ruskinian grotesque -- The Rossettian grotesque -- The grotesque in 'Goblin market' -- Fallen women -- Doubles -- Gothic and fairy tale -- Monsters and vampires -- Called to be saints -- Time flies -- Letter and spirit -- The face fo the deep -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Physical Description:
viii, 207 pages ;
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- The spectrality of Rossettian gothic -- Early influences : Rossetti and the gothic of Maturin -- Rossetti, Ruskin and the moral grotesque -- 'Goblin market' and gothic -- Shadows of heaven : Rossetti's porse works --
Publication Date:
2013.
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