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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 | ||||||
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| 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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| 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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