Christina Rossetti's environmental consciousness / Todd Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Todd O., author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894.

Criticism and interpretation.

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894--Criticism and interpretation.

Rossetti, Christina Georgina.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Environmentalism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 161 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"Christina Rossetti's Environmental Consciousness takes a cognitive ecocritical approach to Rossetti's writing as it developed throughout her career. This study provides a unique understanding of Rossetti's identity as an artist through a cognitive model while also engaging significantly with her spiritual relationship to the nonhuman world. Rossetti was a deliberate and conscious creator who used her writing for therapeutic purposes to create, contemplate, maintain, verify, and, revise her identity. Her understanding of her autobiographical self and her place in the world often comes through observations and poetic treatments of the nonhuman. Rossetti, her speakers, and her characters seek spiritual knowledge in the natural world and share this knowledge with an audience. In nature, Rossetti finds evidence for and guidance from a loving God who offers salvation. Her work places a high value on nature from a Christian perspective that puts conservation over renunciation. She frequently uses strategies that have now been identified by Christian environmentalist such as retrieval, ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality. With new readings of popular works like 'Goblin Market' and 'A Birthday,' along with treatments of largely neglected works like Verses (1847) and Rossetti's devotional writings, Christina Rossetti's Environmental Consciousness offers an understanding of Rossetti's processes and purposes as a writer and displays new potential for her work in the face of twenty-first-century environmental issues"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : cognitive ecocriticism and Rossetti

Self-creation and environment

Embodied Christian aesthetics and environmental ethics

Gleaning Ruth : early poetry

Victorious Jael : first major poetry volumes

Pious Hannah : early devotional writings

Fruitful Sarah : the pageant and other poems

Prophetess Anna : later devotional writings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367112042

0367112043

OCLC:

1085589779