Christina Rossetti's Gothic

Serena Trowbridge is Lecturer in English at Birmingham City University, UK.

• Introduction1. The Spectrality of Rossettian Gothic2. Early Influences: Rossetti and the Gothic of Maturin3. ‘Goblin Market' and Gothic4. Rossetti, Ruskin and the Moral Grotesque5. Shadows of Heaven: Rossetti's Prose WorksBibliographyIndex

[Trowbridge] resists the tendency to read Rossetti through a biographical lens, or to reclaim her to a feminist poetics that requires the omission of her devotional works. Instead, gothic becomes a framework for understanding Rossetti's poetry, in the context of her literary influences and Tractarian faith ... [an] insightful monograph.