Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the late Victorian sonnet sequence : sexuality, belief and the self
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the late Victorian sonnet sequence : sexuality, belief and the self
（Nineteenth century series）
Ashgate, c2005
Available at 9 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's inclusiveness : method and meaning in The house of life
- The sons of Gabriel
- Christina Rossetti replies : Monna innominata and later life
- From sexuality to sexualities : Marzials, Barlow, Blunt, and Symonds
- Female identity in transition : Gregory, Webster, and Newmarch
- Structures of the self : dialectic and myth in John Addington Symonds's Animi figura
- From Rossetti to Rupert Brooke: the self and the nation
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence, the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction: Rossetti, the sonnet sequence and the late Victorian self
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's inclusiveness: method and meaning in The House of Life
- The sons of Gabriel
- Christina Rossetti replies: Monna Innominata and Later Life
- From sexuality to sexualities: Marzials, Barlow, Blunt and Symonds
- Female identity in transition: Gregory, Webster and Newmarch
- Structures of the self: dialectic and myth in John Addington Symonds's Animi Figura
- From Rossetti to Rupert Brooke: the self and the nation
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
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