{"product_id":"the-demon-and-the-damozel-dynamics-of-desire-in-the-works-of-christina-rossetti-and-dante-gabriel-rossetti-hardback-9780821418161","title":"The Demon and the Damozel; Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Hardback) 9780821418161","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Demon and the Damozel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSuzanne M. Waldman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821418161, Ohio University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 October 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.3 x 2 cm, 0.442 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeveloping a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, T\u003ci\u003ehe Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings’ literature and visual arts.\u003cbr\u003e Suzanne M. Waldman views well-known poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti’s \u003ci\u003eGoblin Market \u003c\/i\u003eand Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s \u003ci\u003eThe Blessed Damozel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVenus Verticordia\u003c\/i\u003e in new ways that expose their authors’ savvy anticipation of concepts that would come to be known as narcissism, fetishism, and the symbolic and imaginary orders, among many others. Waldman makes a strong case for the particular psychoanalytic importance of the Rossettis by looking at how the two Rossetti siblings’ own psyches were divided by conflicts between the period’s religious scruples and its taste for gothic sensationalism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Demon and the Damozel\u003c\/i\u003e is a close and contextualized reading of their writings and artwork that displays, for the first time, continuity between the medieval cosmologies these Pre-Raphaelites drew upon and the psychoanalytic theories they looked ahead to-and locates the intricate patterns of proto-psychoanalytic understanding in the rich tapestry of Pre-Raphaelite aestheticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574503076120,"sku":"9780821418161","price":27.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-demon-and-the-damozel-dynamics-of-desire-in-the-works-of-christina-rossetti-and-dante-gabriel-rossetti-hardback-9780821418161","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}