The Death-Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti

Product Description While Emily Dickinson as a forerunner of modern American poetry has met with a good critical response, Christina Rossetti is still regarded as a minor Victorian poet. Despite all their biographical, religious and poetic differences the comparative approach is appropriate for shedding new light on these two women's poetic output, which is preoccupied with death, and for displaying their cultural divergences as well as their transcultural affinities. Based on a new typology and with reference to 220 primary texts, this book highlights Dickinson's and Rossetti's supremely complex view of death, characterized by an enormous amount of shifting emphases and perspectives and focussing on the lyrical I that oscillates between fear and fascination, numb despair and welcome release. About the Author The Author: Claudia Ottlinger was born in Witten in 1962. She studied English, French and Pedagogics and graduated from the Ruhr-University at Bochum in 1987. From 1988 to 1994 she worked at Bochum's Institute for Theatre, Film and TV Studies, since then she has been a Wissenschaftliche Angestellte in the English Department. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1995.