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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the British Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites

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Introduction

"Christina Rossetti." A very brief biography for Christina Rossetti. Academy of American Poets.

Warne, Vanessa. "Christina Rossetti." Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to Christina Rossetti, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription. On Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862); A Pageant and Other Poems (1881).

Marsh, Jan. "Christina Rossetti and the Pre–Raphaelite Brotherhood." A fairly substantial introduction to Christina Rossetti, from Penguin publishers.

"Christina Rossetti." Professor George Landow's Victorian Web has essays on Christina Rossetti's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.

An introduction to Christina Rossetti from the religious perspective. Catholic Literature Association, 1933.

Literary Criticism

Crump, R. W., ed. A review of Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems. Edited by R. W. Crump. Notes and Introduction by Betty S. Flowers. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Anglican Theological Review, 2003, review by David Middleton.

Harrison, Antony H., ed. The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Volume 4, 1887-1894. (U of Virginia P). Publisher's blurb.

McGann, Jerome J. "The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti." First page of article only. Critical Inquiry 10 (Sep., 1983).

Packer, Lona Mosk. "Symbol and Reality in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market." First page of article only. PMLA 73 (Sep., 1958).

Sullivan, Brad. "'Grown Sick with Hope Deferred': Christina Rossetti's darker musings." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1996.

Texts, bibliography, web sites

The Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive, edited by Jerome J. McGann. All the texts of Rossetti, essays on the texts and on Rossetti's style and themes, Rossetti's art, and contextual materials. One of the major research resources on the internet, worth an extended exploration

Web site for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, a semi-annual, refereed journal covering Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic, and decadent art, culture, and literature. The web site provides a list of article titles back to 1987

Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, a scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities.

Web site for Women's Writing, an international scholarly journal focusing on women's writing up to the end of the long nineteenth century. A sample copy is available for viewing, requires registration.

Details about the Christina Rossetti holdings at Bryn Mawr library, along with a brief biography and reliable secondary bibliography.

"The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Periodical Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement 1846 to 1900." An extensive list of nineteenth-century magazine and newspaper articles covering Pre-Raphaelite literature and art, with complete texts.

"Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell Univ., contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions.

A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies.

Removed Articles

Arseneau, Mary, Antony H. Harrison, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, eds. Brief review of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts (Ohio University Press) reviewed in New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies, July 1999 (removed from www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/19c/books/book-0-8214-1243-4.html)

Chapman, Alison. "Defining the Feminine Subject: D. G. Rossetti's Manuscript Revisions to Christina Rossetti's Poetry," contends that her brother's changes to Goblin Market and Other Poems and The Prince's Progress and Other Poems are critical to an understanding of Christina Rossetti's relation to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 2, Summer 1997 (removed).

Henwood, Dawn. "Christian Allegory and Subversive Poetics: Christina Rossetti's Prince's Progress Re-examined." Henwood maintains that The Prince's Progress successfully overcomes the doctrinal limitations of most of Christina Rossetti's verse. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996 (removed).

Kachur, Robert M. "Repositioning the Female Christian Reader: Christina Rossetti as Tractarian Hermeneut in The Face of the Deep." Kachur contends that Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse is strikingly original and of central importance to understanding her desire to write as a female subject within a religious framework. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 2, Summer 1997 (removed).

Lysack, Krista. "The Economics of Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti's Monna Innominata." Lysack treats Monna Innominata as a sustained development of productive female desire in the form of an ecstatic body, based on Victorian commonplaces of the virgin/whore dichotomy. From Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 1998 (removed).

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