Overview

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness takes a cognitive ecocritical approach to Rossetti’s writing as it developed throughout her career. This study provides a unique understanding of Rossetti’s identity as an artist through a cognitive model while also engaging significantly with her spiritual relationship to the nonhuman world. Rossetti was a deliberate and conscious creator who used her writing for therapeutic purposes to create, contemplate, maintain, verify, and, revise her identity. Her understanding of her autobiographical self and her place in the world often comes through observations and poetic treatments of the nonhuman. Rossetti, her speakers, and her characters seek spiritual knowledge in the natural world and share this knowledge with an audience. In nature, Rossetti finds evidence for and guidance from a loving God who offers salvation. Her work places a high value on nature from a Christian perspective that puts conservation over renunciation. She frequently uses strategies that have now been identified by Christian environmentalist such as retrieval, ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality. With new readings of popular works like ""Goblin Market"" and ""A Birthday,"" along with treatments of largely neglected works like Verses (1847) and Rossetti’s devotional writings, Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness offers an understanding of Rossetti’s processes and purposes as a writer and displays new potential for her work in the face of twenty-first-century environmental issues.

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Author:   Todd Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780367112042

ISBN 10:   0367112043
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   08 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Introduction: Cognitive Ecocriticism and Rossetti Ecocriticism and the Mind Rossetti and Psychology Rossetti and Ecocriticism Overview Chapter 1: Self-Creation and Environment Wayfinding Cognition The Autobiographical Self and Sociocultural Homeostasis The Cognitive Model Chapter 2: Embodied Christian Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics Agape in Nature Dark ‘Nature’ and Religious Environmentalism The Anthropocentricism Debate Implicit Environmental Ethics Chapter 3: Gleaning Ruth: Early Poetry Youthful Strains: Verses (1847) Being Ellen Alleyn: The Germ Nameless Rhymester: Blackwood’s Magazine Submissions Chapter 4: Victorious Jael: First Major Poetry Volumes Traveling Uphill: Macmillan’s Magazine Wayfinding Sisters: ""Goblin Market"" Seasons of Redemption: Goblin Market and The Prince’s Progress Volumes Chapter 5: Pious Hannah: Early Devotional Writings Retrieving Scripture for the Christian Year: Annus Domini Evangelist Models and Nature’s Mirrors: Called to Be Saints Creation and Redemption: Seek and Find Chapter 6: Fruitful Sarah: The Pageant and Other Poems Time’s Order The Cognitive Model in Poetry Sonnets of Earthly and Spiritual Love Chapter 7: Prophetess Anna: Later Devotional Writings Nature’s Commandments: Letter and Spirit Autobiographical Self-Revision: Time Flies Saints and Animals: Revisions to Time Flies Apocalyptic Environmentalism: The Face of the Deep"

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Todd Owen Williams received his PhD in Literary Criticism and Theory from Kent State University. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania where he teaches composition and literature courses including Literature and Psychology and Early World Literature. He has published multiple articles on literary pedagogy, and on Victorian authors including the Rossettis, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde. He is the author of A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry and a contributor to the volume Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century.

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