Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith

ISBN-13: 9780198723691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Emma Mason

Opis

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is regarded is one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English. This compelling and authoritative biography shows that Christina Rossetti's poetry, diaries, letters, and devotional commentaries, are engaged with contemporary theological debate.

Recenzje

The brilliance of this book rests in no small measure on Mason's accomplishment as literary critic, biographer and theologian. Her analysis, in chapter 1, of the influence of the Cappadocians and of key Anglo-Catholic thinkers on Rossetti is an object lesson in patient, sympathetic analysis. Equally, Mason's reminder that Rossetti was - despite popular views - no quiet and lonely poet will surprise some readers. I hope that readers will be energised by Mason's challenge to re-engage with the theological and environmental radicalism of Rossetti and wider Victorian Christian culture. Rachel Mann, Manchester Metropolitan University, Modern Believing

O autorze

Emma Mason is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on poetry and religion. Her books include Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature (2015), Elizabeth Jennings: The Collected Poems (2012), The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible (2011), The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (2010), The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (2009), Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2004), and Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature (with Mark Knight, 2006). Mason also edits the Bloomsbury monograph series New Directions in Religion and Literature; and co-edits the Oxford University Press journal The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.