Selected prose of Christina Rossetti
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Selected prose of Christina Rossetti
Macmillan, 1998
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Bibliography: p. [373]-401
Includes index
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Description
Christina Rossetti is recognized as the leading woman poet of the 19th century in England. Despite recent attention to her life - in the form of three new biographies - and her poetry, Rossetti's prose works remain largely inaccessible to students and scholars. This volume comprises selected prose by Rosetti, presenting the prose works in three modes: expository prose, including her two essays on Dante and two of her contributions to the "Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography", on "Leopardi" and on "Petrarch"; fiction, including the novella "Maude", several of her short stories, and "Speaking Likenesses"; and judicious excerpts from her devotional prose, which consists of six volumes published over a period of 18 years.
Table of Contents
- General Introduction - PART 1: EXPOSITORY PROSE: INTRODUCTION - Selections from the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (1857-63): 'Leopardi' and 'Petrarch' - 'Dante: An English Classic' (from Churchman's Shilling Magazine, 1867) - 'Dante: The Poet Illustrated out of the Poem' (from Century Magazine, 1884) - 'The House of Dante Gabriel Rossetti' (1892) - PART 2: FICTION - Introduction - Maude (1850) - From Commonplace, and Other Short Stories (1870): 'Commonplace'
- 'Nick'
- 'Pros and Cons' - From Speaking Likenesses (1874) - From The Dawn of the Day (1882): 'Two Sketches' - PART 3: DEVOTIONAL PROSE - Introduction - Notes on Genesis and Exodus (no date) - From Annus Domini (1874) - From Seek and Find (1879) - From Called to be Saints (1881) - From Letter and Spirit (1883) - From Time Flies (1885) - From The Face of the Deep (1892) - Selected Bibliography - Index
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