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Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting with the Saints

Autor Dr Elizabeth Ludlow
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2014
Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a' Kempis, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Donne and describes how Rossetti adapted the teaching of the Ancient and Patristic Fathers and medieval mystics. It also considers the interfaces that are established between her devotional poems and the anthology and periodical pieces alongside which they were published throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472512321
ISBN-10: 1472512324
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Champions Rossetti as a sophisticated theologian through close readings of her poetry and devotional prose.

Notă biografică

Elizabeth Ludlow is a lecturer in English at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She has held teaching fellowships at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the University of Birmingham, UK.

Cuprins

Introduction: The Place of Waiting \ 1. Attuned to the Voices of the Saints: Christina Rossetti's Devotional Heritage \ 2. Grace, Revelation and Wisdom: Early Poetry including Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) \ 3. 'Developing a Theology of Purpose: Poetry of the 1860s and early 1870s including The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866). \ 4. Shaping a Poetics of Affect in A Pageant and Other Poems (1881) \ 5. Maternity and Vocation: The Devotional Prose (1874- 1892) \ 6. Continuing to Wait: Shaping the Self through Verses (1893) \ Bibliography \ Index.

Recenzii

Christina Rossetti's engagement with Christian theology continues to fascinate literary scholars. Excellent work on this subject has appeared in the last several decades, including Diane D'Amico's superb Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time (CH, May'00, 37-4952) and Lynda Palazzo's Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology (CH, Jan'03, 40-2659), but Ludlow (Anglia Ruskin Univ., UK) proves there is substantially more to be said on this subject. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
By means of scrupulous and admirable research, Ludlow places Rossetti in a long tradition of religious thinkers who seek to make sacred devotion an intimately human practice ... Her book is a goldmine for scholars who seek deep knowledge of Rossetti and the Bible ... Ludlow's remarkable biblical knowledge, for its part, allows her to uncover fresh meaning in both Rossetti's language and her structure. It is a rare pleasure to find criticism that pays such close attention to the matter of words and their arrangement, and even more of a pleasure to see the degree to which that attention pays off.
A sophisticated, well-read, and theologically attuned account of Rossetti's assimilation of the Bible and devotional writing.
Ludlow's almost encyclopaedic mastery of the theological and religious intricacies at play, as well as her ability to trace their historical development and their connections to literature, set the book apart from other studies of its kind: not merely providing a contextual framework for understanding the theological basis of Rossetti's own works, this study illuminates the longer traditions which are themselves at the root of Victorian theological debates, and of the literature shaped by these in turn . this project offers a necessary correction to recent trends in scholarship that represent Rossetti's approach as 'startlingly modern' . her project's significance as a contribution to the study of Rossetti's writing and its theological contexts becomes apparent through the many excellent close readings and analyses performed in this book.