Essays on Christina Rossetti
Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to show the oppression that women experienced in their everyday lives in the Victorian era. It aims to make people aware of how they struggled to find their own identities and prosper as individuals because they were—and still are—subject to patriarchy. These issues will be explored through...
Carpenter, Mary Wilson. “‘Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me’: The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market.’ (Feminist Literary Criticism of Victorian Poetry).” Victorian Poetry, no. 4, 1991, p. 415. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.12084261&site=eds-live&scope=site. This article by Mary Wilson Carpenter focuses on female sexuality and its presence in Victorian Era works such as Goblin Market. It...
In the 1800’s, the oppression of women was in full affect and would not allow women to be anything other than what the society said they could be or what they could do. But you start to see a turn when women authors started to express what they are going through and demand for a...
