Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and NowDavid Clifford, Laurence Roussillon One of the foremost literary and artistic families of the nineteenth century, the Rossettis had a striking impact upon the life and culture of the age. This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores their achievements in the context of the Victorian era and of modern cultural and literary criticism. Outsiders Looking In considers the position that the Anglo-Italian Rossettis occupied in the cultural melee of mid-Victorian London, a status that was both central and fringe owing to their dual nationality. The essays in this volume demonstrate how the family members -- from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and William -- drew upon a shared cultural experience, and describe how each contributed to the intellectual debates of the age and played a substantial role in their various fields. Bringing together significant contributions from some of the most renowned experts on the Rossettis, Outsiders Looking In provides important new perspectives on this talented family and their brilliant legacy. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CONTENTS | 6 |
Italy and Italianness | 7 |
Outsider Insiders | 29 |
Aesthetics in a Commercial World | 47 |
Christina Rossetti and her Publishers | 61 |
William Michael Rossetti | 77 |
The Rossetti Women | 97 |
The Analogical | 145 |
the Parodic | 155 |
DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner StandingPoint | 171 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 189 |
DG Rossetti and Buchanans | 203 |
Literary Tradition and the Rossetti Legacy | 221 |
Thomas Hardy Jocelyn Pearston | 237 |
Fin de Siècle | 253 |
Christina Rossetti | 115 |
In the Footsteps of His Father? Dantean Allegory | 131 |
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Outsiders Looking In: The Rossettis Then and Now David Clifford,Laurence Roussillon Limited preview - 2004 |
Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now David Clifford,Laurence Roussillon Limited preview - 2004 |
Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now David Clifford,Laurence Roussillon Limited preview - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic Alexander Macmillan Anglo-Catholicism Anglo-Italian artist beauty Britain British brother Buchanan Burrows century Christ Church Christina Rossetti contemporary critical Dalziels Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante's Democratic Sonnets dream edition Elizabeth Siddal England English Enrica essay exemption exile father figure Fleshly School Gallery Goblin Market Hardy ideal illustrated inner standing-point interest Italian Italy Jan Marsh Jenny John later Letters of Christina literary Lucy Madox manuscript Maria Mary Shelley Memoir moral Morris nineteenth-century OUTSIDERS LOOKING Oxford Oxford Movement painting Pearston poem poet poetic poetry political Pre-Raphaelite Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood prose published radical readers religious republican rhymes ritual Robert Robert Buchanan romantic Rossettian Ruskin sequence Shelley's Heart SIBLING CULTURES Sing-Song Swinburne Swinburne's symbolic thee thou tion Tractarian TRUE COSMOPOLITANS University Press verse Victorian vols London volume Well-Beloved Whitman William Michael Rossetti WMR Diary woman women writing wrote
References to this book
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality ... John Holmes No preview available - 2005 |
Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature:An Introduction: An Introduction Mark Knight,Emma Mason No preview available - 2006 |