Lorraine Janzen Kooistra


Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is associate professor of English at Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada. She is the author of The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books and co-editor (with Mary Arseneau and Antony H. Harrison) of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts.


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Christina Rossetti and Illustration

A Publishing History

Readers do not always take into account how books that combine image and text make their meanings. But for the Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti, such considerations were central. Christina Rossetti and Illustration maps the production and reception of Rossetti's illustrated poetry, devotional prose, and work for children, both in the author's lifetime and in posthumous twentieth-century reprints.…

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The Culture of Christina Rossetti

Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts

The Culture of Christina Rossetti explores a "new" Christina Rossetti as she emerges from the scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural context in which she lived and wrote. The essays in this collection demonstrate how the recluse, saint, and renunciatory spinster of former studies was in fact an active participant in her society's attempt to grapple with new developments in aesthetics, theology, science, economics, and politics.…

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