<DIV>Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, T<I>he Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti</I> offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings&rsquo; literature and visual arts.<BR><br> Suzanne M. Waldman views well-known poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti&rsquo;s <I>Goblin Market </I>and Dante Gabriel Rossetti&rsquo;s <I>The Blessed Damozel</I> and <I>Venus Verticordia</I> in new ways that expose their authors&rsquo; savvy anticipation of concepts that would come to be known as narcissism, fetishism, and the symbolic and imaginary orders, among many others. Waldman makes a strong case for the particular psychoanalytic importance of the Rossettis by looking at how the two Rossetti siblings&rsquo; own psyches were divided by conflicts between the period&rsquo;s religious scruples and its taste for gothic sensationalism.<BR><br> <I>The Demon and the Damozel</I> is a close and contextualized reading of their writings and artwork that displays, for the first time, continuity between the medieval cosmologies these Pre-Raphaelites drew upon and the psychoanalytic theories they looked ahead to&mdash;and locates the intricate patterns of proto-psychoanalytic understanding in the rich tapestry of Pre-Raphaelite aestheticism.</DIV>