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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Goblin Market"”.
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“Sugar-Baited Words": Diabetic Themes in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
… and published in 1862, Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” follows two sisters who are tempted by goblins to eat their fruit. I read the younger sister, Laura, who gets ill after eating the goblin’s sugary fruits, through a diabetic framework because Victorian medicine did acknowledge …
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
… literal, and allegorical when she wrote “Goblin Market” in 1862. I argue that Rossetti critiques the treatment of women’s bodies in the evolving medical marketplace of Victorian England at the hands of male medical professionals and argues the ability of women to be trusted as medical …
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Queering the Spheres: Non-Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Three Victorian Texts
… Ghost in the Clock Room,” Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” and J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. I apply queer theory to locate these authors’ attempts to destabilize heteronormativity by depicting non-normative gender roles, sexualities, and families in texts that emphasize the Victorian …
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
… use of religion in their proto-feminist works, “Goblin Market” (Rossetti), the verse novel Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), and the dramatic monologues “Xantippe,” (1881) “Magdalen,” (1884) and “A Prayer” (1881) (Levy). This thesis examines the secular and religious institutions that these …
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"A Magic Deeper Still": Sacramental Poetics in William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, and C.S. Lewis
… The subsequent chapters on Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” and C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces confirm that a sacramental poetics depends upon not only our ability to perceive the world as capable of producing a sense of fullness but also our ability to feel this sensation with our …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… characterized issues of faith. </p><p> In Goblin Market and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti engages the female corpse tradition to illustrate the misplaced fear that many of her contemporaries associated with death and the afterlife. While arguing for a renewed faith in God, Rossetti enacts …
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The Anglo-Catholic quality of Christina Rossetti's apocalyptic vision in The Face of the Deep.
… including "Symbols," "The Convent Threshold," "Goblin Market," and "The Prince's Progress," to explore the ways in which The Face of the Deep serves as a kind of "grammar," a symbolic and theological vocabulary, by which all of Rossetti's poetry can be interpreted.
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
… writing, from “Winter: My Secret” (1857) and “Goblin Market” (1859) to “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children” (1865) and ““Resurgam” (1883). With this wide range, I demonstrate that similar approaches are used throughout Rossetti’s writing from her earliest poems to her later work. I …