Christina Rossetti's Feminist TheologyThis volume disputes the assumption that Rossetti was a follower of Keble and Pusey, and shows how her dissatisfaction with the male-dominated call to celibacy led her to reject their notions of worldliness, and to form a closer bond with the physical world and the body. |
Contents
1 Early Poetry Including Goblin Market and Maude | 1 |
2 Later Poetry Including The Princes Progress and Annus Domini | 31 |
3 Called to Be Saints and Seek and Find | 57 |
4 Letter and Spirit and Time Flies | 85 |
A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse | 111 |
6 Conclusion | 139 |
Notes | 143 |
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