Christina Rossetti AO5

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  • Christina Rossetti AO5
    • Caroline Norton
      • 'the faults of women are visited as sins, the sins of men are not even visited as faults'
    • Joshua Backer (1898)
      • 'Rossetti draws ideas about Eve’s Original sin and the spiritual weakness of women to explore female religious guilt and inadequacy”
    • Lars Wallner
      • Rossetti's poems express the 'pain of love'
    • Bocher
      • 'Rossetti’s love for God always trumps the love of another human'
    • Simon Avery
      • Maude Clare
        • 'an intriguing study in the manipulation of power
        • The silence of Nell's husband is 'a clear critique of dominant masculinity'
      • 'Rossetti's speakers demonstrate both an awareness and resistance to, those social and political expectations which define acceptable roles for women and which potentially leave them powerless'
      • From The Antique
        • 'endless cycle of bleak conformity'
        • 'seemingly indifferent o women's plight
    • Genre Theory
      • Feminist
      • Devotional
      • ballads
      • moral
    • Palazzo
      • Goblin Market
        • 'Rossetti has radically rewritten the Fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women'
    • Rossetti
      • 'It is not in me, and therefore, it will never come out of mem to turn to politics or philanthropy with Mrs Browning'
    • Dr Oliver Tearle
      • In Good Friday Tearle called the line 'And miste a rock' a 'violent command'
    • Simon de Beauvoir
      • 'in a patriarchal culture a woman inevitably experiences herself as object adn other

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