Martin A. Danahay (essay date winter 1998)

Martin A. Danahay (essay date winter 1998)

SOURCE: Danahay, Martin A. “Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Virtual Bodies.” Victorian Poetry 36, no. 4 (winter 1998): 379-97.

[In the following essay, Danahay explores the commodification of women's bodies in Rossetti's paintings and poetry.]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings and poems were made available on the World Wide Web in 1993 thanks to Jerome McGann's creation of “The Rossetti Archive” at the University of Virginia (

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