Bibliography for "The Longing for Motherhood and the Concept of Infertility in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti"

Julia Touché, Anglistisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz [e-mail: JX271175@aol.com]

The Longing for Motherhood and the Concept of Infertility in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti

1. Introduction

2. Christina Rossetti's Biographical Situation in 1872

3. Sing-Song - More than a Nursery Rhyme Book

3.1 The Memory of Her Own Childhood

3.2 The Longing for a Child of Her Own

3.3 The Wish for Sexuality/Sensuality

3.4 The Social Acceptance Connected to Motherhood

3.5 Contemporary Problems in Sing-Song

3.6 Religious Aspects in Sing-Song

4. Christina Rossetti's Religious Poetry — 4.1 Sexual Frustration and Infertilty

4.2 Rossetti's Substitute Love for Jesus

5. Conclusion

6. List of Works Cited

Primary Sources

Abrams, W.H (General Editor), The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume 2. New York and London (Sixth edition): W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.

Cosman, Carol; Keefe, Joan and Weaver, Kathleen (editors), The Penguin Book of Women Poets. Reprint. New York; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987 (Original: The Viking Press, 1979).

Rossetti, Christina. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. With Memoir and Notes &c. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. London; New York: Macmillan, 1904.

Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market and Other Poems. Ed. Candace Ward. Toronto and London: Dover, 1994.

Secondary Sources

Armstrong, Isobel. 'A Music of Thine Own': Women's Poetry. in: Joseph Bristow, Victorian Women Poets. Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1995, 32-63.

Flowers, Betty S. The Kingly Self: Rossetti as a Woman Artist. in: David A. Kent (ed), The Achievement of Christina Rossetti. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987, 159-174.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan. The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan (ed.). The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. The Tradition in English. New York; London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.

Harrison, Antony H. Christina Rossetti in Context. Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1988.

Hunt, Peter (ed.). Children's Literature. An Illustrated History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti. A Literary Biography. London and Sydney: Pimlico, 1995.

McGann, Jerome J. "The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti" in: Joseph Bristow. Victorian Women Poets. Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1995, 167-188.

McGillis, Roderick. "Simple Surfaces: Christina Rossetti's Work for Children." in: David A. Kent (ed), The Achievement of Christina Rossetti. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987, 208-230.

Mermin, Dorothy. The Damsel, The Knight, and the Victorian Woman Poet. in: Ed. Joseph Bristow. Victorian Women Poets. Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1995, 64-83.

Mosk Packer, Lona. Christina Rossetti. Cambridge: University Press; Berkley and L.A.: University of California Press, 1963.

Verch, Maria. Das Englische Gedicht für Kinder vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert. Typen, Themen, Motive. Eine historische und typologische Untersuchung. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1983.

Zaturenska, Marya. Christina Rossetti. A Portrait with Background. Reprint. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970. [Original: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949]

Internet Sources: http://www.cs.windsor.ca/units/english/projects/rossetti/singsong/kid.html

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