Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting with the Saints

Dr Elizabeth Ludlow (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting with the Saints
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
22 September 2016
Pages
272
ISBN
9781350003729

Christina Rossetti and the Bible: Waiting with the Saints

Dr Elizabeth Ludlow (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a’ Kempis, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Donne and describes how Rossetti adapted the teaching of the Ancient and Patristic Fathers and medieval mystics. It also considers the interfaces that are established between her devotional poems and the anthology and periodical pieces alongside which they were published throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century.

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