AO5 Flashcards
(Devotional) Bocher on CR love of God
‘Cr’s love of God always trumphs that of another human’
(devotional) Bocher on th extent of CR’s religious views
‘Religious views affect everything she wrote’
(Devotional) Curran’s rather demeaning religious label of CR
‘Just a simple pious woman’
(devotional) Eve West - positivity of waiting
‘Waiting becomes a positive action’
(Devotional) Marsh on era’s growing secularity
‘Decline in churchgoing…grievous to CR’
(Fallen women) Avery on CR speakers & women’s roles
‘CR speakers demonstrate awareness of…social and political expectations which define acceptable roles for women’
(Fallen Women) D’amico on CR’s belief abt non-lasting label of the fallen woman
‘must have believed that a fallen woman need not forever be a fallen woman’
(Fallen Women) Armstrong on CR’s depiction of female sexuality
‘CR ‘steers away from equating fem. sexuality with sinfulness, which in itself is a radical move’
(Mortality) Bowra on CR’s desire for death
‘Love [of God] released a melancholy desire for death’
(Mortality) Wallner on CR’s devotion to death
‘spent much of her time devoted to the aspect of death’
(Mortality) Rosenblum on CR’s desire for death
‘longed for the release from the painfulness of living’
(Fairytale & fantasy) Dr Wilson on CR’s imaginative nature
‘deeply observant and imaginative….linguistically inventive
(Fairytale & fantasy) Harrison on what Goblin Market reflects about society
‘reflects a profound fear of female sexuality & its potential consequences’
(Fantasy & fairytale) Morden on Goblin market’s parable status
‘conventional parable of temptation, sacrifice & salvation.’
(Morality) CR’s own admission of her aims w/ writing
‘my aims in writing to be pure…directed to that is true & right’
(devotion & mortality) Tennyson on how female devotion is expressed
‘female devotion is best expressed through passivity’
Laporte on the religiosity of female poets in the Victorian era.
‘central religious element’
Gray on the dangers of overlooking religious aspects of CR work
‘To ignore the overwhelmingly Christian tenor of most Victorian women’s poetry is to marginalise…its chief perspective.’
(Ecotheology) A03/5: Reverend Pusey on the idea of intercommunion
‘There is close intercommunion between Heaven & Earth,’
(Ecotheology) Mason on what tractarianism believed abt the natural world
‘a movement that saw nature as a codified revelation of the trinity…part of a network in which every being was connected with the divine’
