Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

A selective list of articles on the British Victorian poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Fontana, Ernest. "Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets." Style, Winter, 2005

Fredeman, William E., ed. Brief review of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Formative Years, 1835-1862: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. 1. 1835-1854; II. 1855-1862. Reviewed in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2003 (taken offline from findarticles.com)

Guy, Josephine M. "'Trafficking with Merchants for His Soul': Dante Gabriel Rossetti Among the Aesthetes." First page of article only. Chatterton Lecture on Poetry 1999, Proceedings of the British Academy

Hall, Michael. "God is in the details: Tate Britain's exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelite approach to nature is ambitious in its intellectual scope." Apollo, April, 2004

Helsinger, Elizabeth. "The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain." Art Bulletin, March, 1999

McGann, Jerome. A review of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost. First page of article only. Reviewed by Julia F. Saville, Modern Philology, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Nov., 2002), pp. 311-314

Prettejohn, Elizabeth. Publisher's blurb for The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (Tate Publishing, 2007)

Wood, Christopher. "Out of the shadows: a thoughtful show at the Ashmolean Museum should do much to bring the circumspect Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter Alfred William Hunt the recognition he deserves." Apollo, March, 2005

Barclay, John. "Consuming Artifacts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Aesthetic Economy." Barclay discusses the connections between aestheticism and commodity culture in Rossetti's work. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996 (taken offline)

Chapman, Alison. "Defining the Feminine Subject: D. G. Rossetti's Manuscript Revisions to Christina Rossetti's Poetry." Chapman contends that understanding Dante Gabriel's changes to Goblin Market and Other Poems and The Prince's Progress and Other Poems is critical to an understanding of Christina Rossetti's relation to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 2, Summer 1997 (taken offline)

Danahay, Martin A. "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Virtual Bodies." Danahay analyzes the commodification of the female body in Rossetti's poetry. Victorian Poetry, Vol 36, no. 4, Winter 1998 (taken offline)

Introduction

"The way of all flesh: Kathryn Hughes finds that the Victorians differed little from us in their response to nudity." New Statesman, Nov 19, 2001

"Exhibit Celebrates Woman as Muse, Temptress, Dreamer." Review of a D. G. Rossetti art exhibition, Art Business News, April, 2001

Section on Dante Gabriel Rossetti George Landow's Victorian Web covers themes, techniques, biography

A brief biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by his brother, William (1895). Rossetti Hypermedia Research Archive (taken offline)

A short introduction to D.G. Rossetti from the University of Guelph

An introduction to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's visual art, Univ. of North Carolina

Internet Texts, Web Sites

The Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive, edited by Jerome J. McGann. All the texts of Rossetti, essays on the texts and on Rossetti's style and themes, Rossetti's art, and contextual materials. One of the major research resources on the internet, worth an extended exploration

Web site for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, a semi-annual, refereed journal covering Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic, and decadent art, culture, and literature. The web site currently provides a list of article titles back to 1987

Annotated bibliography for Dante Gabriel Rossetti from Jon Smith, instructor at Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn

An extensive list of magazine and newspaper articles dealing with Pre-Raphaelite literature or art from 1846-1900, with links to the etexts of the reviews

Notes on the Victorians and their art from the Tate Museum, designed for use by teachers of all grade levels, provides a good introduction to the Victorian period and particularly to Victorian art

A guide to Victorian research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies

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