ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Rossetti’s relationship with the nonhuman world and its relevance to our contemporary environmental crisis. Critics have long established that her seeking of analogies in nature is based on her Tractarian-influenced religious beliefs. Despite her anthropocentricism, Rossetti’s work can be useful in shaping more ethical attitudes toward the environment from a religious perspective. Her work reflects beliefs and information processing routines through which she displays the spiritual value of nature. Nature is valuable mainly because it is God’s way of communicating to humanity and it reflects God’s love.
