Christina Rossetti's gothic / Serena Trowbridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trowbridge, Serena, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Rossetti, Christina Georgina.

Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Spectrality of Rossettian Gothic

2. Early Influences: Rossetti and the Gothic of Maturin

3. 'Goblin Market' and Gothic

4. Rossetti, Ruskin and the Moral Grotesque

5. Shadows of Heaven: Rossetti's Prose Works

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472543462

1472543467

9781441170446

1441170448

9781441142238

1441142231

OCLC:

857081301