Selected prose of Christina Rossetti / edited by David A. Kent and P.G. Stanwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894.

Contributor:

Kent, David A., 1948-

Stanwood, P. G.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Prose. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

Christina Rossetti is one of the best known and loved of Victorian poets, yet only recently has she emerged from comparative critical obscurity. This is partly due to a late twentieth-century rediscovery of women writers and partly because of a renewed interest in Victorian culture. Although Rossetti's poetry is readily available, her prose works have remained largely ignored. Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti is the first book to address this deficiency by making accessible reliable texts illustrative of all her prose. The editors have collected selections of Rossetti's prose in its three modes: fiction, non-fiction, and devotional. Rossetti wrote prose all her life, beginning with fiction, and continued with moral tales, stories for children, and thoughtful articles on such literary figures as Petrarch, Dante, and Leopardi. But above all else, she wrote devotional books. She wrote six religious works, first the brief Annus Domini and lastly the massive work on the Apocalypse, The Face of the Deep, published shortly before her death. This groundbreaking anthology helps to reveal Rossetti's deep personal faith while also illuminating nineteenth-century religious thought and spirituality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [374]-401) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

031215903X

OCLC:

37864352