Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. ROSSETTI: POET
7. Poet of Mystery: The Art of Christina Rossetti 23
8. The Meretricious and the Meritorious in Goblin Market: A Conjecture and an Analysis 57
9. Questioning the Convention: Christina Rossetti's Sonnet Sequence "Monna Innominata" 82
10. II. ROSSETTI: WOMAN ARTIST AND PROSE WRITER 157
11. The Kingly Self: Rossetti as Woman Artist 159
12. Eve, Mary, and Mary Magdalene: Christina Rossetti's Feminine Triptych 175
13. Eighteen Early Letters by Christina Rossetti 192
14. Simple Surfaces: Christina Rossetti's Work for Children 208
15. Christina Rossetti's Devotional Prose 231
16. III. ROSSETTI: PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES
17. "By thought, word, and deed": George Herbert and Christina Rossetti 250
18. Christina Rossetti: The Devotional Poet and the Rejection of Romantic Nature 274
19. Being and Understanding: Devotional Poetry of Christina Rossetti and the Tractarians 301
20. Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 322
21. Afterword: Love God and Die-Christina Rossetti and the Future 346
22. Contributors 357
23. Index to the Writings of Christina Rossetti 361
24. General Index 365