David Clifford is a Lecturer and Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.Laurence Roussillon is Maitre de Conférence in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Louis Lumiere, Lyon 2, France.

'This is a satisfying collection in which all the essays present original material which helps shed light on English culture in the nineteenth century.' —'The Burlington Magazine'

• List of Illustrations; Ackonowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Italy and Italianness: 1. Sibling Cultures; 2. William Michael and Lucy Rossetti: Outsider Insiders - The True Cosmopolitans; PART II. Aesthetics in a Commercial World: 3. The Taxman and the Aesthete: the Canon according to William Michael Rossetti; 4. Copyright and Control: Christina Rossetti and her Publishers; 5. Recollections PB Shelley: William Michael Rossetti, Political Commitment and Literary Capital; PART III. Faith in an Age of Science: 6. Pews, Periodicals and Politics: The Rossetti Women as High Church Controversialists; 7. A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival: Christina Rossetti and the London Ritualist Scene; 8. In the Footsteps of His Father? Dantean Allegory in Gabriele Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 9. Mystic, Madwoman or Metaphysician? The Analogical Theodicy of Christina Rossetti; 10. Christina's Challenge to Victorian Mentality: the Parodic, Unconventional Pattern of 'My Dream'; PART  IV. Radical Poetics: 11. DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing Point; 12. Maundering Medievalism: Dante Gabriele Rossetti and William Morris's Poetry; 13. The Aesthetics of Morbidity: DG Rossetti and Buchanan's The Fleshly School of Poetry; PART V. Literary Tradition and the Rossetti Legacy: 14. 'It Once Should Save as well as Kill': DG Rossetti and the Feminine; 15. Pursuing the Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardy, Jocelyn Pearston and the School of Rossetti; 16. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetic Daughters: Fin de Siècle Women Poets and the Sonnet; Selected Bibliography

David Clifford is a Lecturer and Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.Laurence Roussillon is Maitre de Conférence in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Louis Lumiere, Lyon 2, France.

'This is a satisfying collection in which all the essays present original material which helps shed light on English culture in the nineteenth century.' —'The Burlington Magazine'

• List of Illustrations; Ackonowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Italy and Italianness: 1. Sibling Cultures; 2. William Michael and Lucy Rossetti: Outsider Insiders - The True Cosmopolitans; PART II. Aesthetics in a Commercial World: 3. The Taxman and the Aesthete: the Canon according to William Michael Rossetti; 4. Copyright and Control: Christina Rossetti and her Publishers; 5. Recollections PB Shelley: William Michael Rossetti, Political Commitment and Literary Capital; PART III. Faith in an Age of Science: 6. Pews, Periodicals and Politics: The Rossetti Women as High Church Controversialists; 7. A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival: Christina Rossetti and the London Ritualist Scene; 8. In the Footsteps of His Father? Dantean Allegory in Gabriele Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 9. Mystic, Madwoman or Metaphysician? The Analogical Theodicy of Christina Rossetti; 10. Christina's Challenge to Victorian Mentality: the Parodic, Unconventional Pattern of 'My Dream'; PART  IV. Radical Poetics: 11. DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing Point; 12. Maundering Medievalism: Dante Gabriele Rossetti and William Morris's Poetry; 13. The Aesthetics of Morbidity: DG Rossetti and Buchanan's The Fleshly School of Poetry; PART V. Literary Tradition and the Rossetti Legacy: 14. 'It Once Should Save as well as Kill': DG Rossetti and the Feminine; 15. Pursuing the Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardy, Jocelyn Pearston and the School of Rossetti; 16. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetic Daughters: Fin de Siècle Women Poets and the Sonnet; Selected Bibliography

David Clifford is a Lecturer and Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge.Laurence Roussillon is Maitre de Conférence in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Louis Lumiere, Lyon 2, France.

'This is a satisfying collection in which all the essays present original material which helps shed light on English culture in the nineteenth century.' —'The Burlington Magazine'

• List of Illustrations; Ackonowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Italy and Italianness: 1. Sibling Cultures; 2. William Michael and Lucy Rossetti: Outsider Insiders - The True Cosmopolitans; PART II. Aesthetics in a Commercial World: 3. The Taxman and the Aesthete: the Canon according to William Michael Rossetti; 4. Copyright and Control: Christina Rossetti and her Publishers; 5. Recollections PB Shelley: William Michael Rossetti, Political Commitment and Literary Capital; PART III. Faith in an Age of Science: 6. Pews, Periodicals and Politics: The Rossetti Women as High Church Controversialists; 7. A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival: Christina Rossetti and the London Ritualist Scene; 8. In the Footsteps of His Father? Dantean Allegory in Gabriele Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 9. Mystic, Madwoman or Metaphysician? The Analogical Theodicy of Christina Rossetti; 10. Christina's Challenge to Victorian Mentality: the Parodic, Unconventional Pattern of 'My Dream'; PART  IV. Radical Poetics: 11. DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing Point; 12. Maundering Medievalism: Dante Gabriele Rossetti and William Morris's Poetry; 13. The Aesthetics of Morbidity: DG Rossetti and Buchanan's The Fleshly School of Poetry; PART V. Literary Tradition and the Rossetti Legacy: 14. 'It Once Should Save as well as Kill': DG Rossetti and the Feminine; 15. Pursuing the Well-Beloved: Thomas Hardy, Jocelyn Pearston and the School of Rossetti; 16. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetic Daughters: Fin de Siècle Women Poets and the Sonnet; Selected Bibliography