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The afterlife of Christina Rossetti
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- Creator
- Alison Chapman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xi, 213 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780312234614, 0312234619
- OCLC
- ocm43567415
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.
- Introduction: the Haunting of Christina Rossetti -- 1. 'A Bizarre Medium': The Return of the Dead and New Historicism. The lost referent. Imaginary restorations -- 2. Speaking with the Dead: Recovering Lost Voices. Ventriloquies. Feminism and the voice -- 3. Christina Rossetti in Effect: Reading Biographies. History. Hysteria. Histrionics -- 4. Defining the Feminine Subject: Fraternal Revisions I. Tracing the subject. Revising hands. Self-erasure -- 5. Spectres and Spectators: Fraternal Revisions II. Sister to the Brotherhood. 'Alone of all her sex'. 'Not as she is, but as she fills his dream'. Out of focus -- 6. Father's Place, Mother's Space: Italy and the Paradisal. Strange homelands. Cor mio -- 7. The Afterlife of Poetry: 'Goblin Market'. The consumptive signature. Critical Goblin Markets. Remembering Jeanie