Rossetti Lit Crits Flashcards
(20 cards)
Bensen - ‘Into the service
‘Into the service, then, of her religion, Miss Rossetti brought all the passionate fervour of her unsatisfied heart
Bocher - ‘Rossetti’s love
‘Rossetti’s love for God always trumps the love of another human’
Bocher - ‘In Rossetti’s poetry
‘In Rossetti’s poetry, God is always present.’
Bocher - “In Rossetti’s view,
“In Rossetti’s view, romantic love simultaneously… is extremely powerful … and must be tempered, above all else, with a complimentary reverence for God”
Canete’s appraisal of Marsh - ‘Christina seems
‘Christina seems to have been frightened by aggressive masculinity’
Chen - Lizzies carrying
Lizzies carrying juice with her body symbolizes importation and colonization’
Comino - ‘With the two girls,
‘With the two girls, Lizzie and Laura, Rossetti acknowledges the two extreme perceptions of women as passionless angels and whores’
D’Amico - she must have believed
she must have believed a fallen woman need not forever be a social outcast”
Food and Famine - Victorian literature
‘Victorian literature, in turn, captures this obsession with food’
Food and Famine - Victorian authors
‘Victorian authors show a preference for the pitiable.
Food and Famine - fasting paves
Fasting paves a road to redemption and a higher spiritual state’
Galt
she is a woman whom the conventions of a society could not shake
Harrison - christ
‘Christ was her idealised Lover’
Harrison - as a consequence
as a consequence of her inexorably Christian attitude toward the uses of language..Rossetti’s love poetry takes on a unique shape.”
Harrison - Rossetti used
‘Rossetti used her poetry largely as a medium in which to challenge what she perceived as the values of her particular historical era’
Landlow - “All Miss Rossetti’s poems
“All Miss Rossetti’s poems are full of the spirit, though not the technicality, of devotion.
Lewis - women’s pivotal
women’s pivotal passion is the maternal. Man’s pivotal passion is the sexual
Marx - the female mask
‘the female mask may afford the female subject a paradoxical freedom.’
Packer - Laura is destroyed
‘Laura is destroyed by her own weakness, not by goblin fruit’
Sowards - the problem with the fruit
‘The problem with the fruit is that its origins are remote rather than local’
