rossetti context Flashcards
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1843: rossetti’s father
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rossetti’s father fell ill
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1845: rossetti’s illness
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- suspected heart condition
- graves disease
- developed a mental illness
3
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life of women in victorian britain
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- lack of education
- forced to cook and clean
- upper class were raised to be wives
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echo and narcissus
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- echo falls in love with narcissus
- cursed to only repeat the words of others
- he rejects her for his reflection
- he dies and leaves a flower where his body was
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1850s: feminism
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- first feminist movement
- focused on equality in education, work and electoral rights
- NOT supported by Queen Victoria
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1870s: married women’s property act
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- allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned
- and inherit property
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other poets
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- many victorian poets, including Tennyson focus heavily on the traumatic nature of loss, in poems such as ‘in memoriam’
- elizabeth barrett browning similarly discusses discontent with women’s position in victorian society
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rossetti’s experience of grief and loss
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lost her father (and financial security) at the age of 24
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rossetti’s loss of love
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chose to end engagements for religious reasons:
* collinson & catholicism
* causley & lack of firm religious faith
10
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goblin market intertextuality
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- biblical imagery: adam and eve, the last supper
- poems ‘cousin kate’, ‘maude clare’ and ‘an apple gathering’ (all 1862)
- charlotte bronte’s ‘jane eyre’ (1847)
- elizabeth barrett browning’s ‘aurora leigh’ (1857)
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psycholinguistic theory in goblin market
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- goblins: advertisers, seducing women to buy products
- laura: “a sucker who will never get an even break because no actual commodity can match the consuming appetite”
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rossetti and religion
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- devout anglican
- broke off her engagement to james collinson when he converted to catholicism
- refised to marry charles causley as he had ‘no firm religious faith’
- found life physically and emotionally painful, looked forward to death and joining god
- wrote almost exclusively devotional poems after graves disease
- worked for highgate penitentiary
