Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.
Contents:
Index. Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on referencing -- Shadows of heaven : Rossetti's porse works -- 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.
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." -- Publisher website.
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