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Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
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Mind Map on Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market, created by hattiejordan on 23/12/2013.
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Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
Women
Sisterhood
Involved in Anglican sisterhood
Submit to higher male authority
Freud: "Sublimation"
Redirecting the libido from sexual gratification, in act of religious faith
Doesn't seem Christly?
'Eat me, drink me, love me'
Homoeroticism
Bynum: 'the Eucharist [provoked] intense cravings that Laura experienced'. Evoking Christian ritual within Lizzies redemption of sis.
Emergence in the public sphere
The repetition/ listing/ irregular rhythm scheme/ loose iambic tetrameters
"Come buy, come buy,” was still their cry
Undercurrent of anxiety
Prostitution
Religion
Deeply devoted Anglican
Oppression of religious patriarchal institutions
'Suck [her] juices'
ludicrously erotic
But spiritual as well as sexual...
Can be read as: faith, (sisterhood) surpassing transgression
Intense spiritual longing of a woman
The frantic incessant listings of fruit, first stanza starts syndetic listing then becomes asyndetic. Quickening rhythm
Story of Adam + Eve, taking the "forbidden fruit" . Exploration X cynical but question if she was to blame
Sexual trangression
Radiates sexual tension
Semantic field of sensual/erotic imagery
'Squeezed their fruits/ against her mouth'
'Suck her juices'
'She suck'd until her lips were sore'
The stressed 'Suck'd' beside 2 unstressed, emphasised. The plosive 'd' also juts out into our consciousness because of the sibilant sound
Desire
Gilbert and Gubar
Such monsters project the 'seductions of the male muse'
The libido and thirst for the fruit offers this paradox
paradisal + demonic
Waldman; 'The Demon and the Damsel'
Strong phallic components
'A better Resurrection'
Rise in me
Female as a vessel
The holy cup
Victorian culture
Consumerism
Lizzie's penny
The Goblins do not accept the coin
'Lashing their tails/ they trod and hustled her'
Not part of the economy of male brotherhood
But part of gift economy in religious salvation and sisterhood
'One call'd her proud'
Expectation as a woman to abide moral laws by men, while also living in the "male" laws of prejudice/ deprivation of civil rights/ class issues.
Leighton analysis of Browning's 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim Point'
Social code: Character Marian's life a kind of wrong 'from the beginning'
Comparison to Laura = less wealthy than liz with silver penny... So makes physical offering
Fate imposed on women
Only redeem NOT overpower. Enforcing role/ "fate" of women, serving for something else
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