Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now

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David Clifford, Laurence Roussillon
Anthem Press, 2004 - Art - 284 pages

The essays in this volume demonstrate how the Rossettis - from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and William - drew upon a shared cultural experience, and describe how each contributed to the intellectual debates of the age and played a substantial role in their various fields. Bringing together significant contributions from some of the most renowned experts on the Rossettis, 'Outsiders Looking In' provides important new perspectives on this talented family and their brilliant legacy.

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Contents

Introduction
1
CONTENTS
6
Italy and Italianness
7
Aesthetics in a Commercial World
47
Christina Rossetti and her Publishers
61
William Michael Rossetti
77
Faith in an Age of Science
95
Christina Rossetti
115
the Parodic
155
Radical Poetics
169
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
189
DG Rossetti and Buchanans
203
Literary Tradition and the Rossetti Legacy
221
Thomas Hardy Jocelyn Pearston
237
Fin de Siècle
253
Selected Bibliography
283

In the Footsteps of His Father? Dantean Allegory
131
The Analogical
145

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