Product Description: This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor...read more

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Product Description: Unfolding the South presents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods. Responding to recent developments in the fields of literary criticism and art history, the book covers a stimulating range of canonical and non-canonical writers and artists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Despite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history. Through an analysis of the posthumous in her work, the construction of "Christina Rossetti" by her brothers, and the history of her reception, this study asks how "speaking with the dead" can avoid critical ventrilogquy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)