context rosetti Flashcards
pre-Raphaelite movement
celebrated sensuality, minute detail and sexual yearning
marriage rosetti
Rossetti refused three marriage proposals from two men between 1848 and 1866
rossetti often
resists patriarchal values and sexual double standards
lots of males viewed women
as needed to be directed and guided
gave them parliamentary representation
rossetti and parliamentary vote
she believed there was an “unalterable distinction” between men and women, so refused to take part in the campaign to get votes for women
rossetti’s poems challenged
The idea of the seductive women
to give a more balanced view of womanhood
The Married Women’s Property Act 1882
allowed women to own and control property, significant change in English law
The victorian period
witnessed massive changes in thinking about women’s roles in society
her devout religious belief
her poems are often overtly concerned with religious issues
In Rossetti’s poems
women are often in very difficult situations: they are tempted, ignored, forgotten or oppressed
the tones her women use
are often regretful, resentful, frightened or hopeless
Richard Gill Rosetti
Rosetti presents a ‘dark assessment of the female lot.
Rossetti lived in an era of
patriarchal attitudes
phallocentric ideals
The Contagious Diseases Acts
passed in the 1860s, enshrined in British law that women were a source of contamination
as Josephine Butler has said it “ruled a crime in women, which is not to be a crime in man”
Worrall : Helmer remains cowed
By a social code he can neither live up to nor ignore
