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- Title
Christina Rossetti: Illness and Ideology.
- Authors
Harrison, Antony H.
- Abstract
A literary criticism of poet Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market" is presented. It examines the concepts of illness and ideology. Specifically, the author states that Rossetti views temptations towards passion as societal lapses. The author further comments that Rossetti suffered from depression and other psychological diseases in adolescence, which led to a repressed adulthood of spinsterhood. Rather, she channeled her energies towards proselytizing women towards a more wholly ideology.
- Subjects
GOBLIN Market (Poem); ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894; IDEOLOGY &; literature; PROSELYTIZING; POETRY (Literary form); DEPRESSION in adolescence; SEXUAL abstinence; HUMAN sexuality in literature; CRITICISM; ETHICS; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2007, Vol 45, Issue 4, p415
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2008.0000