Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, The Demon and the Damozel offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings' literature and visual arts.

Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, "The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti "offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings' literature and visual arts. Suzanne M. Waldman views well-known poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market "and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" and "Venus Verticordia" in new ways that expose their authors' savvy anticipation of concepts that would come to be known as narcissism, fetishism, and the symbolic and imaginary orders, among many others.