Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, T"he Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti" offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings literature and visual arts.
Suzanne M. Waldman views well-known poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti s "Goblin Market "and Dante Gabriel Rossetti s "The Blessed Damozel" and "Venus Verticordia" in new ways that expose their authors savvy anticipation of concepts that would come to be...