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Christina Rossetti's Gothic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trowbridge, Serena
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
Subjects:
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, > 1830-1894 > Criticism and interpretation.
Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on referencing
  • Introduction
  • The critical context
  • The problem of gothic
  • Tractarianism and gothic
  • Poetry and gothic
  • The spectrality of Rossettian gothic
  • Spectrality as a mode of criticism
  • The spectral and the psychological
  • Spectrality and writing
  • Rossetti's spectres
  • Early influences : Rossetti and the gothic of Maturin
  • The wild Irish boy
  • Women
  • Melmoth the wanderer
  • Rossetti, Ruskin and the moral grotesque
  • The grotesque
  • The Ruskinian grotesque
  • The Rossettian grotesque
  • 'Goblin market' and gothic
  • The grotesque in 'Goblin market'
  • Fallen women
  • Doubles
  • Gothic and fairy tale
  • Monsters and vampires
  • Shadows of heaven : Rossetti's porse works
  • Called to be saints
  • Time flies
  • Letter and spirit
  • The face fo the deep
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.