Christina Rossetti’s Faithful Imagination: The Devotional Poetry and Prose

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 \'Real Things Unseen\': The Tractarian Influence......Page 21
Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic tensions in Rossetti\'s early poetry......Page 43
Rossetti and melancholy......Page 55
The hopeful imagination......Page 66
\'Romantic\' and \'Victorian\' Dante......Page 72
Christina Rossetti and Beatrice......Page 75
Monna Innominata: The preface......Page 80
Monna Innominata: The poem......Page 82
Imagination and responsibility......Page 109
Rossetti and Eve......Page 113
Rossetti and St. Paul......Page 119
Rossetti and female suffrage......Page 125
Rossetti and Old Testament women......Page 130
5 Spiritual Autobiography in Time Flies: A Reading Diary......Page 144
Religious authority and spiritual humility......Page 148
Reconciling artistic and spiritual responsibility......Page 156
Typology......Page 169
Time and eternity......Page 178
6 Imagining Faith: Earth and Heaven in The Face of the Deep......Page 181
Notes......Page 210
Selected Bibliography......Page 223
G......Page 229
P......Page 230
R......Page 231
S......Page 232
Z......Page 233