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Introduction

1．Literature Review

2．Da Capo Aria and the Paradigm of"silence-voice-Silence"

3．"silence-voice-Silence"inside Christina Rossetti's Works

Chapter 1 Female Speakers in Christina Rossetti's Lyrics

1.1 Christina Rossetti as a Lyricist

1.2 The Speaking Silence:Dead Women in Christina Rossetti's Death Lyrics

1.2.1 Death in Christina Rossetti's Lyrics

1.2.2 Ghosts Presented as Spectators

1.2.3 Dreamers Speaking from Remoteness

1.3 The Restless Introspection:Reserved Women in Christina Rossetti's Meditative Lyrics

1.3.1 Christina Rossetti and the Meditative Lyrics

1.3.2 The Heart-broken Lover in the Willowwood

1.3.3 A Frustrated Spirit Seeking Peace:"An Old-World Thicket"

Chapter 2 Muse in Christina Rossetti's Sonnet Sequence

2.1 "Muse"and Traditional Love Sonnets

2.1.1 La Vita Nuova and Dante's Beatrice

2.1.2 Canzoniere and Petrarch's Laura

2.1.3 Fair Youth and Dark Lady in Shakespeare's Sonnets

2.1.4 Muse in the Traditional Love Sonnets

2.2 Victorian Muse:Victorian Poets and the Love Sonnet Sequences

2.2.1 The House of Life and D.G.Rossetti's Elizabeth Siddal

2.2.2 "Sonnets from the Portuguese"and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's New Muse

2.3 "Monna Innominata":a Declaration of Anti-Muse

2.3.1 Preface:Declaration of Anti-Muse

2.3.2 Christina Rossetti's Reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2.3.3 Christina Rossetti's Reception of Dante and Petrarch

2.3.4 Christina Rossetti's Muse

Chapter 3 Sisters and Maidens in Christina Rossetti's Dramatic Monologues

3.1 Christina Rossetti and the Dramatic Monologues

3.2 A Harsh Dissonance in Victorian Era:Maidens in Christina Rossetti's Dramatic Monologues

3.2.1 "Sister Christina"and St.Mary Magdalene

3.2.2 Fallen Maidens in Christina Rossetti's Short Dramatic Monologues

3.3 The Victorian Heloise in"The Convent Threshold"

3.3.1 Heloise and Her Variations in Literary Texts

3.3.2 Penitent Sinner:the Victorian Heloise in"The Convent Threshold"

Chapter 4 Female Protagonists in Christina Rossetti's Fictions

4.1 Christina Rossetti and the Genre of Fiction

4.2 "Maude":A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Poetess

4.2.1 Christina Rossetti as Poetess

4.2.2 "Maude":The Self-Portrait of a Young Poetess

4.3 The Metamorphosis of"Hero"

4.3.1 Hero in Classical Mythology and Elizabethan Age

4.3.2 "Hero":The Victorian Metamorphoses

Conclusion

Works Cited

Selected Bibliography

Appendix-Ⅰ Illustrations

Appendix-Ⅱ 克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂译诗节选

Acknowledgements