The Autobiographical Self and Embodied Knowledge of God in Christina Rossetti’s Time Flies.

In the largely autobiographical text Time Flies, Christina Rossetti constructs a Christian identity for herself based on the integration of mind, body, and environment. By practicing strategies of processing the world derived from the Tractarian movement of 19th-century England, Rossetti gains knowledge of God based on her embodied perspective in relation to the natural environment. This leads her to an ethical view of nature in which she constantly finds evidence of God’s love. Rossetti continually applies this understanding of love as a core belief in order to make meaning of her life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]