{"product_id":"the-culture-of-christina-rossetti-female-poetics-and-victorian-contexts-9780821412435","title":"The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mary Arseneau\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Christina Rossetti\u003c\/i\u003e explores a \"new\" Christina Rossetti as she emerges from the scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural context in which she lived and wrote. The essays in this collection demonstrate how the recluse, saint, and renunciatory spinster of former studies was in fact an active participant in her society's attempt to grapple with new developments in aesthetics, theology, science, economics, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume examines Rossetti's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives in order to reevaluate her place in the Victorian world of art, literature, and ideas. The essays offer a radical rethinking of her best-known poems, retrieve neglected works, establish the diversity of her writing, and reposition Rossetti within a canon continually under formation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributing to the ongoing retrieval of the nineteenth-century woman poet, \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Christina Rossetti\u003c\/i\u003e highlights Rossetti's responses to both male and female literary traditions and explores her incorporation and revision of literary influences from medieval Italian sources to contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614562893975,"sku":"9780821412435","price":9857.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780821412435.webp?v=1775094619","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-culture-of-christina-rossetti-female-poetics-and-victorian-contexts-9780821412435","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}