Selected prose of Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti is one of the best known and loved of Victorian poets, yet only recently has she emerged from comparative critical obscurity. This is partly due to a late 20th-century rediscovery of women writers and partly because of a renewed interest in Victorian culture. Although Rossetti's poetry is readily available, her prose works have remained largely ignored. Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti is the first book to address this deficiency by making accessible reliable texts illustrative of all her prose. The editors have collected selections of Rossetti's prose in its three modes: fiction, non-fiction, and devotional. Rossetti wrote prose all her life, beginning with fiction, and continued with moral tales, stories for children, and thoughtful articles on such literary figures as Petrarch, Dante, and Leopardi. But above all else, she wrote devotional books. She wrote six religious works, first the brief Annus Domini and lastly the massive work on the Apocalypse, The Face of the Deep, published shortly before her death. This groundbreaking anthology helps to reveal Rossetti's deep personal faith while also illuminating nineteenth-century religious thought and spirituality. - Publisher
Print Book, English, 1998
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998
novels
xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780312159030, 031215903X
37864352
General Introduction - PART 1: EXPOSITORY PROSE: INTRODUCTION - Selections from the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (1857-63): 'Leopardi' and 'Petrarch' - 'Dante: An English Classic' (from Churchman's Shilling Magazine, 1867) - 'Dante: The Poet Illustrated out of the Poem' (from Century Magazine, 1884) - 'The House of Dante Gabriel Rossetti' (1892) - PART 2: FICTION - Introduction - Maude (1850) - From Commonplace, and Other Short Stories (1870): 'Commonplace'; 'Nick'; 'Pros and Cons' - From Speaking Likenesses (1874) - From The Dawn of the Day (1882): 'Two Sketches' - PART 3: DEVOTIONAL PROSE - Introduction - Notes on Genesis and Exodus (no date) - From Annus Domini (1874) - From Seek and Find (1879) - From Called to be Saints (1881) - From Letter and Spirit (1883) - From Time Flies (1885) - From The Face of the Deep (1892) - Selected Bibliography - Index