Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was part of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the Victorian period. Rossetti's family was very involved in literature and the arts. Read more about the life of Christina Rossetti.
1. The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts
by Mary Arseneau (Editor), Anthony H. Harrison (Editor), and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Editor). Ohio University Press. From the publisher: "The Culture of Christina Rossetti offers a radical rethinking of Rossetti's place in the Victorian world of art, literature, and ideas. Examining her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from a variety of theoretical perspectives, these essays solicit a new understanding of Rossetti as an artist..."2. Christina Rossetti
by Jan Marsh. Charles E. Tuttle Company. From the publisher: "This, the first full-scale biography of Rossetti, reinstates her in her rightful place as a luminary among Victorian poets. Like Emily Dickinson, with whom she is often compared, Rossetti is a poet's poet who wrote some of the Victorian period's most lush, most original, and also some of its most restrained poetry..."
3. Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time
by Diane D’Amico. Louisiana State University Press. From the publisher: "According to D’Amico, the image of Rossetti that can best serve as a guide to her more than one thousand poems reflects the centrality of her faith—not as evidence of sexual repression nor necessarily as absolute truth, but as absolute truth for Rossetti. It will then become apparent how Rossetti’s commitment to her Christian faith, her experience as a Victorian woman, and her poetic vocation are inextricably interwoven."4. The Language of Exclusion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti
by Sharon Leder, and Andrea Abbott. Greenwood Publishing Group. From the publisher: "The authors take as their point of departure the spinster/recluse model, which they argue has characterized most biographies of 19th-century women poets written before 1960. Rejecting this model, they build instead on the rich tradition of feminist literary criticism exemplified by the work of writers like Elaine Showalter, Lillian Robinson, and Martha Vicinus."5. Recovering Christina Rossetti
by Mary Arseneau. Palgrave. From the publisher: "This book re-conceives Christina Rossetti's poetic identity by exposing the androcentric bias inherent in the histories of the Rossetti family and of Pre-Raphaelitism, by turning new attention to the Rossetti women, and by reconstituting a female and religious community for Rossetti's writing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Mary Arseneau investigates how Rossetti's religious faith sustains her poetic practice..."6. Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology
by Lynda Palazzo. Palgrave. From the publisher: "Read in the context of emerging nineteenth-century women's theology, Rossetti's devotional prose shows a distinct preference for the 'wisdom texts' of scripture, and foreshadows the work of leading feminist theologians today."7. The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti
by Alison Chapman. Palgrave. From the publisher: "Despite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history. Through an analysis of the posthumous in her work, the construction of Christina Rossetti by her brothers, and the history of reception, this study asks how speaking with the dead can avoid critical ventriloquy."8. Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery
by Katherine J. Mayberry. Louisiana State University Press. From the publisher: "Recent feminist scholarship on the poetry of Christina Rossetti testifies to the richness of the Rossetti canon for women's studies, yet there has not until now been a thorough, critically nondenominational foundation upon which Rossetti scholarship can build."9. Christina Rossetti
by Dorothy Margaret Stuart. M. S. G. Haskell House. From the publisher: "An interpretative biography of Christina Rossetti describing her ancestry and childhood, her connection with the pre-Raphaelite movement, her two love affairs and the other events and influences in her life all this against the background of her devotion for her mother and to the church. The author had access to letters never before published, as well as to rare first editions of her subject's works."10. Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History
by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. Ohio University Press. From the publisher: "Lorraine Janzen Kooistra’s reading of Rossetti’s illustrated works reveals for the first time the visual-verbal aesthetic that was fundamental to Rossetti’s poetics. Her exhaustive archival research brings to light new information on how Rossetti’s commitment to illustration and attitudes to copyright and control influenced her transactions with publishers and the books they produced."