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

[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. -- Susan Civale Times Literary Supplement This monograph succeeds in offering a genuinely fresh perspective on Christina Rossetti's work, making a persuasive case for viewing her as a Gothic writer ... through a mix of careful close reading and wide-ranging contextual and theoretical research. -- Gregory Tate, University of Surrey The Pre-Raphaelite Society

• 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

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

[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. -- Susan Civale Times Literary Supplement This monograph succeeds in offering a genuinely fresh perspective on Christina Rossetti's work, making a persuasive case for viewing her as a Gothic writer ... through a mix of careful close reading and wide-ranging contextual and theoretical research. -- Gregory Tate, University of Surrey The Pre-Raphaelite Society

• 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

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

[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. -- Susan Civale Times Literary Supplement This monograph succeeds in offering a genuinely fresh perspective on Christina Rossetti's work, making a persuasive case for viewing her as a Gothic writer ... through a mix of careful close reading and wide-ranging contextual and theoretical research. -- Gregory Tate, University of Surrey The Pre-Raphaelite Society

• 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