Contents

Anthony H. Harrison, Professor of English, North Carolina State University

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Preface

Chapter One. Introductory: Christina Rossetti and the Poetic Vocation

Chapter Two. The Poetics of "Conciseness"

• Pre-Raphaelite and Ruskinian Aesthetics
• Rossetti's Avante-Garde Poetics
• Aestheticism

Chapter Three. "With Heavenly Art": Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Rossetti's Devotionalist Ideology

• Pre-Raphaelite Aestheticism and Pre-Raphaelite Sacramentalism
• Pre-Raphaelitism and Tractarianism

Chapter Four. Aestheticism and the Thematics of Renunciation

• Introduction
• Pre-Raphaelite Love
• Plato, Augustine, and Christina Rossetti
• The Art of Renunciation
• Love and the Ideal
• Love and Betrayal
• Love and Renunciation

Chapter Five. Intertextuality: Dante, Petrarch, and Christina Rossetti

• Contextual
• Intertextual
• Historical and Intertextual
• Exegetical

Bibliography

Bibliographical Epilogue

Appendix

Last modified June 2000