The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti

Chapman, A.

Despite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history. Through an analysis of the posthumous in her work, the construction of 'Christina Rossetti' by her brothers, and the history of reception, this study asks how 'speaking with the dead' can avoid critical ventriloquy. The figure of the mother is offered as a paradigm for theorising a new reading that refuses to exorcise the ghost of 'Christina Rossetti'.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-06-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333721834

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286009

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 213