Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology. By LYNDA PALAZZO. (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv+165 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-79469-9.

Although important articles by, for example, Coleen Hobbs ('A View from the "Lowest Place": Christina Rossetti's Devotional Prose', Victorian Poetry, 32 (1994), 409-28) and Joel Westerholme ('"I Will Magnify Mine Office": Christina Rossetti's Authoritative Voice in her Devotional Prose', Victorian Newsletter, 84 (1993), 11-17) have begun to sketch the ambiguities and paradoxes of a devout Anglo-Catholic woman intervening in theological matters, Christina Rossetti's devotional prose and poetry continues to be neglected. Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology is therefore welcome...

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