Rossetti A05 Flashcards

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Lynda Palazzo, 2002, about Goblin Market

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‘Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women’

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Rossetti’s view on women, from her religious writings in ‘Seek and Find’

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‘In many ways the feminine lot copies very closely the voluntarily assumed position of our Lord… women must obey: and Christ learned obedience’

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C.M. Bowra, 1949

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‘Her idea of love turned inexorably to the idea of death… in this association we can surely see her instinctive shrinking from the surrender which love demands’

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Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, 1979

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  • ‘Rossetti loses herself in the aesthetic of renunciation, experiencing an almost extreme self-pity and self-congratulation at her self-denial’
  • ‘That genius and sexuality are diseases in women, diseases akin to madness, is implied in ‘Goblin Market’ both by Laura’s illness and by the monitory story of Jeanie’
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Gaynell Galt, 2010

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‘Rossetti convinces her audience that she is a woman whom the conventions of society could not shake’

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Virginia Woolf, 1930

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‘Your God was a harsh God… No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes’

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Bocher, 2006

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  • ‘Being a woman in Victorian Britain meant that you were doubly judged: by both men and God’
  • ‘Rossetti’s love of God always trumps the love of another human’
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Aline Downey

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‘In poems such as Good Friday and Shut Out, she explores anxieties, inadequacy and suffering, examining existential fear and mistrust of her own moral compass’

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Suyu Chen, 2017

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‘The fruits of the goblin market are exotic non local products… Lizzie carries the juice from the fruits on her body to her sister… this suggests importation and colonisation’

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