JOURNAL ARTICLE

'Love Came Down at Christmastime': Pedagogical Purpose and Religious Devotion in Christina Rossetti's Christmas Carols.

  • Published In: Victoriographies, 2025, v. 15, n. 1. P. 67 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Gallichio, Christian 3 of 3

Abstract

This article argues that three of Christina Rossetti's Christmas-themed poems – 'A Christmas Carol' (1876), 'Christmastide' (1885), and 'A Christmas Carol, for my Godchildren' (1886) – attempted to reclaim a religious-based Christmas poetics that centralised Christian meditations on Christ's significance to Christmas over growing nonsectarian celebration in the nineteenth century. Further, in the twentieth century, these poems were part of a growing religious based pedagogical repurposing, which thrust Rossetti's poetry into the debate about the use of outwardly religious material in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Victoriographies. 2025/03, Vol. 15, Issue 1, p67
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:20442416
  • DOI:10.3366/vic.2025.0556
  • Accession Number:182961792
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