Category: Christina Rossetti

Christian and Feminist Views of Christina Rossetti: Analytical Essay Animal-shaped goblin men, with their exotic fruits, in a mysterious jungle with two young maidens, all the elements you would expect of a fairytale in Christina Rosettis The Goblin Market. Im not convinced that, that is all there is to this poem however, once you look…

Representation of Stereotypes in Christina Rossettis Goblin Market: Analytical Essay Explore how one of the stereotypes we have studied on this course (e.g. the fallen woman, or the self-made man) is represented in one or more texts. Fallen Women is a Victorian concept to address women who had sex outside of marriage. It was considered…

Womens Bodies Transactions in the Home and the Marketplace: Analysis of Christina Rossettis Fairy Tale Poem Goblin Market Womens Bodies Transactions in the Home and the Marketplace from the 1860s to the 1890s This paper critically discusses womens gradual entrance in the public sphere by considering their bodies transactions in the home and the marketplace…

Christina Rossetti’s Way of Life: Descriptive Essay What is the most terrifying and thought provoking topic? Some people would say death within a heartbeat. Death is unknown, sudden, and perhaps lonely. Its unnerving because death can come with a great extent of emotions like grief, anger, and loneliness. Christina Rossetti was an English poet in…

Christina Rossetti As One of the Most Prominent Female British Poet: Analytical Essay Christina Rossetti, one of the most prominent female British poets, was born in 1830, and wrote during the height of the Victorian age. As a well-educated, but unmarried woman, she would have been intimately familiar with the standards that the fairer sex…

Theme of Female Sexuality in Rossetti’s and Webster’s Texts In Maude Clare, Rossetti shows a powerful alternative type of woman  Maude Clare. The name is significant as Maude derives from the word warrior and connotes extreme strength and power, thus presenting women and their female sexuality as a powerful weapon that only warriors like…

Christina Rossetti: The Greatest Victorian Female Poet Before the Victorian era, there were very few famous female poets. However, during this era, many important female poets were born, such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Browning and Christina Rossetti. Christina Rossetti was one of the most important female poets in the nineteenth century. She was viewed as…

Christina Rossetti and her Contemporaries: Women and Discourse The Victorians saw poetry itself and its muses as feminine, making it doubly difficult for women to be authors of poems and so effectively silencing them . Christina Rossetti’s contemporary female poets placed themselves outside of the sphere of male poetry by forging a unique discourse of…

Feminism in Christina Rossettis Goblin Market One of the more interesting results from the relationship between writers and their readers lies in the transcendental nature of the work they produce. The work writers leave behind will always be left open to interpretation by future generations of their readers. What I find fascinating is the writer,…

Theme of Female Sexuality in Rossetti’s and Webster’s Texts In Maude Clare, Rossetti shows a powerful alternative type of woman  Maude Clare. The name is significant as Maude derives from the word warrior and connotes extreme strength and power, thus presenting women and their female sexuality as a powerful weapon that only warriors like…