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Women & Sex Flashcards

(8 cards)

1
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Rossetti’s poetry can be seen to give women a voice, what examples of this do we see in her poetry?

A

Poems such as No Thank You, John, Maude Clare and From the Antique convey female perspectives that were somewhat unheard of at that time

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What does Coventry Patmore’s The Angel in the House convey about how women were seen at this time?

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Wives were the property of their husbands.

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Why did Rossetti refuse James Collinson’s proposal?

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Because he was Catholic.

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Why did Rossetti’s relationship with Charles Cayley fail?

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“His ideas were far removed from Christian Orthodoxy” as highlighted by Frances Thomas.

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Complete this Frances Thomas quote: “We are more conscious than Christina Rossetti would have been

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of the erotic imagery of this poem…”

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Why does Frances Thomas believe victorian women would have been unaware of the sexual imagery seen in Goblin Market?

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“Many Victorian women…lived their erotic lives at a just pre-adolescent level…”

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Why does Kathryn Burlison believe Goblin Market has sexual connotations?

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“Blushes often symbolise erotic response in Victorian Literature, as lower body arousal in displaced to the face”

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What could be the reasoning for why Rossetti signed the Anti-Suffrage petition?

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She was a Tractarian and believe in the Calvinist idea that everything was pre-determined: thus, she would have accepted her role as a woman as God Given.

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