Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the nineteenth-century Victorian poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with links to reliable biographical and introductory material and signed, peer-reviewed, and scholarly literary criticism.

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Introduction & Literary Criticism

"Dante Gabriel Rossetti." A section on D.G. Rossetti at George Landow's Victorian Web covers Rossetti's themes, techniques, and biography [free].

Danahay, Martin A. "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Virtual Bodies." Danahay analyzes the commodification of the female body in Rossetti's paintings and poetry. Victorian Poetry 36 (Winter 1998) [Many additional articles on D.G. Rossetti, by recognized authorities and from reliable, peer-reviewed journals, are available at this subscription service].

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

Hassett, Constance W. "Elizabeth Siddal's Poetry: A Problem and Some Suggestions." Victorian Poetry 35, 4 (Winter 1997) [first page of article only, blurred].

McGann, Jerome. A review of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost. Reviewed by Julia F. Saville, Modern Philology 100 (Nov. 2002) [first page of article only, blurred].

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

Rossetti, W.M. "Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal" (1903) [free].

Web Sites [all free]

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 literary projects 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 provides a list of article titles back to 1987.

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

"The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Periodical Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement 1846 to 1900." An extensive list of nineteenth-century magazine and newspaper articles covering Pre-Raphaelite literature and art, with complete texts.

"The Victorians: Notes for Teachers." On the Victorians and their art, from the Tate Museum, designed for use by teachers of all grade levels. The brochure provides a good introduction to the Victorian period and particularly to Victorian art, but it's a big file to download.

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