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The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti
<p>When William Michael Rossetti edited the complete poetical works of his sister in 1903, the devotional poems made up no less than one hundred and ninety-two pages. Written in the years between 1848 and 1893, from the time Christina was eighteen until the year before her death, the poems in their …
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A contrast of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson,
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
This thesis offers a new reading of Christina Rossetti’s poetic texts which situates them within the context of liminality. I define liminality here as a site of ambiguity, change and unfulfilment between two states, whilst emphasising its potential for transformation and transgression. I examine …
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"A Magic Deeper Still": Sacramental Poetics in William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, and C.S. Lewis
… purpose and meaning. The subsequent chapters on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” and C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces confirm that a sacramental poetics depends upon not only our ability to perceive the world as capable of producing a sense of fullness but also our ability to feel this …
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Rewriting Christina Rossetti : cross-gendered sibling rivalry, fraternal intervention and the counter-poetics of dissidence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti, paying especial attention to unravelling the received tradition that as an artist, Rossetti was indebted to Dante Gabriel's patronage. Instead, I argue that she negotiated her career as a poet against a covertly competitive backdrop of sibling …
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Apocalyptic care : the renewal of creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… religious poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and challenge those prevailing assumptions through taking the poets' religious commitments seriously as sources of hope and aesthetic formation. Ultimately, I demonstrate that their commitment to an …
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
… nature of a "modern," progressive faith. Lastly, Christina Rossetti's devotional verse, when read in relationship to her ideas of secrecy, reveals a powerful way in which disempowered "fallen" women might regain their spiritual and social equilibrium. One goal of this dissertation is to work …
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The Anglo-Catholic quality of Christina Rossetti's apocalyptic vision in The Face of the Deep.
Critical scholarship on Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, where it exists at all, tends to interpret the work as an individualistic and subversive foray into biblical interpretation. However, this dissertation argues that Rossetti's apocalyptic …
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Sing No Sad Songs for Me : A Study of the Influence of the Oxford Movement upon Christina Rossetti as Evidenced in Her Poetry
<p>Christina Rossetti was largely influenced by the religious reformation known as the Oxford Movement; this study attempts to record that influence by discussing the etiology and the doctrines of the Movement in relationship to Christina's life and her poetry. A cursory review of the topics of …
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Eve and the creation cycle: Christina Rossetti's reaction to John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Christina Rossetti's poetry is concerned with the image of woman as a creator and as a redeemer, the woman who has fallen from innocence and whose innocence is restored through participation in the creation/redemption cycle. Rossetti's writing reflects her personal experiences, her love of Dante's …
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
This thesis analyzes the Victorian women poets Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Amy Levy and their use of religion in their proto-feminist works, “Goblin Market” (Rossetti), the verse novel Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), and the dramatic monologues “Xantippe,” (1881) …
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
<p>Christina Rossetti created a unique poem that combines elements of the fantastical, scientific, medical, literal, and allegorical when she wrote “Goblin Market” in 1862. I argue that Rossetti critiques the treatment of women’s bodies in the evolving medical marketplace of Victorian England at …
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
… as Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew. Few would now deny that writers such as Barrett Browning and Rossetti are major figures of Victorian poetry, as integral to the canon as Robert Browning, Swinburne or Tennyson, but for nearly a century, despite …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… faith. </p><p> In Goblin Market and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti engages the female corpse tradition to illustrate the misplaced fear that many of her contemporaries associated with death and the afterlife. While arguing for a renewed faith in God, Rossetti enacts a radical revision of the …
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A Study of Values Held by Teenagers in the Area of Clothing Selection
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:45:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212105.pdf: 3022175 bytes, checksum: e2151b93bcaff55484009f7c15a5c480 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971