Outsiders Looking In

The Rossettis Then and Now
Herausgeber: Clifford, David; Roussillon, Laurence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781843311058
• ISBN-10: 1843311054
• Artikelnr.: 21000639

Autorenporträt

Edited by David Clifford and Laurence Roussillon

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations; Ackonowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; PART
I: Italy and Italianness: 1. Sibling Cultures; 2. William Michael and Lucy
Rossetti: Outsider Insiders - The True Cosmopolitans; PART II. Aesthetics
in a Commercial World: 3. The Taxman and the Aesthete: the Canon according
to William Michael Rossetti; 4. Copyright and Control: Christina Rossetti
and her Publishers; 5. Recollections PB Shelley: William Michael Rossetti,
Political Commitment and Literary Capital; PART III. Faith in an Age of
Science: 6. Pews, Periodicals and Politics: The Rossetti Women as High
Church Controversialists; 7. A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival:
Christina Rossetti and the London Ritualist Scene; 8. In the Footsteps of
His Father? Dantean Allegory in Gabriele Rossetti and Dante Gabriel
Rossetti; 9. Mystic, Madwoman or Metaphysician? The Analogical Theodicy of
Christina Rossetti; 10. Christina's Challenge to Victorian Mentality: the
Parodic, Unconventional Pattern of 'My Dream'; PART  IV. Radical Poetics:
11. DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing Point; 12. Maundering
Medievalism: Dante Gabriele Rossetti and William Morris's Poetry; 13. The
Aesthetics of Morbidity: DG Rossetti and Buchanan's The Fleshly School of
Poetry; PART V. Literary Tradition and the Rossetti Legacy: 14. 'It Once
Should Save as well as Kill': DG Rossetti and the Feminine; 15. Pursuing
the Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardy, Jocelyn Pearston and the School of
Rossetti; 16. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetic Daughters: Fin de Siècle
Women Poets and the Sonnet; Selected Bibliography