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Considering the lilies : Christina Rossetti’s ecological Jesus

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Mason, Emma (2020) Considering the lilies : Christina Rossetti’s ecological Jesus. In: Ludlow, Elizabeth, (ed.) The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-161. ISBN 9783030400811

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Abstract

Christina Rossetti imagined Christ as an ecological figure to showcase her own commitment to a theology of creation in which the human and other-than-human are interconnected in divine kinship. This chapter suggests that in the “Sermon on the Mount” Rossetti found a language to describe this kinship she elevated the other-than-human as comprising a perfected and graced nature. Interconnected with creation, the other-than-human, she believed, served as an example of how humans might access grace. The chapter makes this argument with reference to Rossetti’s theological prose—Seek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies on the Benedicite (1879), Called to Be Saints: The Minor Festivals Devotionally Studied (1881) and Time Flies: A Reading Diary (1885)—and poems that reworked Matthew 6:28 “They toil not, neither do they spin” and “Consider the lilies of the field.”

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Jesus Christ -- In literature, English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Rossetti, Christina Georgina,1830-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
Series Name: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham
ISBN: 9783030400811
Book Title: The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century
Editor: Ludlow, Elizabeth
Official Date: 18 July 2020
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18 July 2020Published
30 November 2019Accepted
Number of Pages: 276
Page Range: pp. 149-161
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40082-8_10
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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