Christina Rossetti — Leading Questions

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A Better Resurrection

• Embracing Life and Death in "A Better Resurrection" and "At Home" by Christina Rossetti
• The Religious Self: Christina Rossetti's "A Better Resurrection"

After Death

• The Poetic Turn in Christina Rossetti's "After Death"
• "After Death": A Female Perspective on Lost Love
• The Interaction Between the Dead and the Living: Christina Rossetti's "After Death"
• Symbolism and Alternate Meanings in "After Death"
• Perceiving Life After Death

The Convent Threshold

• "The Convent Threshold" versus "The Blessed Damozel"
• Torn Between Earthly and Spiritual Love — "The Convent Threshold"

Goblin Market

• Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market": Feminist Poem or Religious Allegory?
• The Dualities and Complexities of Moral Value Judgments in "Goblin Market"
• Literary Devices and Fantasy in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
• Themes in "The Goblin Feast"
• Intertwining themes in "Goblin Market"
• Visual imagery and depictions of women in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's accompanying illustrations
• The seductiveness of death in Christina Rossetti's 'The Goblin Market'
• Goblin Market: The Forbidden Fruit
• Theme in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
• Is C. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" Escapist?

May

• I Can Tell You About Rossetti's "May"
• Anticipation and Ambiguity in "May"
• Mystery, Scene and the Passage of Time in Christina Rossetti's "May"

Monna Innominata

• Nature and Temporal Love in the Monna Innominata Sonnet Cycle (sonnet 2)
• Christina Rossetti's fresh views on Love in "Monna Innominata" (sonnet 6)
• Idealist Patience in "Monna Innominata" (sonnet 10)
• Pessimism in "Monna Innominata"
• Christina Rosetti's "Mona Innominata" and its Historical Context
• "While of me what will they say?": Addressing the unnamed lady
• Loss of Earthly Love in "Monna Innominata"
• Striving for a Higher, Spiritual Love in Christina Rossetti's "Monna Innominata"
• Conventions of Romantic Verse in Christina Rossetti's "Monna Innominata"
• "Liberating the Muse" in "Monna Innominata"
• A Female Perspective in "Monna Innominata"

Song

• A Displacement of Love: Christina Rossetti's "Song"
• Rossetti's "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest") and Wordsworth's "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"
• No Sad "Song"
• A Woman's Voice in Rossetti's "Song"
• A Reversal of Roles in "Song [When I am Dead]"
• Death in Christina Rossetti's "Song"
• The Rossetti Anatomy of Melancholy

Miscellaneous

• Apotheosis and selfhood in Christina Rossetti's 'The Thread of Life'
• Scars: The Plight of Women in Rossetti's "A Daughter of Eve"
• "A Ballad of Boding" and the Mystery of Revelation
• Christina Rossetti on Male Desire
• Song or Singsong in Christina Rossetti's Poetry
• The Sense of Longing in "The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness"
• Christina Rossetti's "Good Friday" and Typological Symbolism
• Christina Rossetti's "Sappho"
• Themes of Love in "Maude Clare"
• "The World": The Renunciation of Sin and Erotic Desire
• "Songs in a Cornfield": "Five Voices, One Swallow: How Christina Rossetti Sees Loss"
• Releasing love of its obligation and acknowledging the ephemeral in Christina Rossetti's "Remember"

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Last modified 5 March 2008