Christina Rossetti's Gothic

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. –The Pre-Raphaelite Society, Gregory Tate, University of Surrey

Trowbridge’s book adds a tremendous amount simply in opening up the Gothic as an area of study for Rossetti. The connections she draws are persuasively established, clearly elaborated, and reframe not only Rossetti’s works but their religious heritage. Built on excellent research into Rossetti’s reading habits and inclinations from youth to maturity, as well as the aesthetic theories and critical attitudes that are likely to have influenced her writing, this study offers serious and fruitful engagements with a number of important works and figures from Rossetti’s time to the present. –Journal of Victorian Culture, Heather McAlpine, University of the Fraser Valley