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Article: Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2007
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Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style. By CONSTANCE W. HASSETT. (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 2005. xiii + 278 pp. 26.49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8139-2339-0.
Many critics have noted the reserve, reticence, and quietude implicit in Christina Rossetti's verse, themes which tend to be recast in terms of 'renunciation or endurance or disappointment' (p. 117).Constance W. Hassett's study rethinks the apparent detachment of Rossetti's style as 'patience', a remarkably insightful manoeuvre which allows for its alert and discerning argument to unfold. When Hassett writes that Rossetti's ...