Rossetti And ADH Context Flashcards
Middle class were more …. Ibsen
Socially mobile and could therfore work their way up the ladder
New prosperity was …. Ibsen
Fragile, bringing an obsession with money (Helmer)
Ibsen called for writers to ….
Reject the fantasy of abstact idealism and worl for reform of modern society
In ibsens time, women had
No right to vote, own property or borrow money
Women in Norway voted for the first time in
1913
Ibsen impregnated a 28 year old…
Servant when he was 18. Ibsen disowned the child
Else went blind and died in poverty. Hans died ten years after penniless
Themes of heredity, influence of parents
Ibsens wife was a …
Strong willed fiercly intelligent woman
Many of Ibsens plays contains critiscm
Of marriage, portraying dominant female characters
The Angel in the House Rossetti
Was a narrative poem about the ideal of happy marriage
Many of Rossettis early poems focus on which distinction
Between the angelic maid and the wicked temptress
Rossetti and Elizabeth Barret Browningb were divided as
The greatest female poet of the era. Both had a common concern with the politics of gender and power
Rossettis ’unalterable distinction’
Made with Eve in mind and continued in the Bible.
Refused to support the campaign for womens voting rights
Victorian gender ideology was premised on
The doctrine of seperate spheres.
Women were weak, dependant, sex for reproduction
Men were strong, sex controlled, independent
From 1870 to 1872 Rossetti was dangerously
Ill, with fever, exhaustion, swelling. It left her appearance permanently altered
Her brother said she was often a sadly smitten invalid
