rossetti names all Flashcards
Simone de Beauvoir
“in a patriarchal culture a woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other.”
Brown
“Christina seems to us to be the most valuable poet.”
Backer
“ideas about eves original sin and spiritual weakness of women to explore female religious guiltand inadequacy.”
Skoczek
“she’s a conscious observer and critic of the “option” available to Victorian women.”
Palazzo
“CR had radically re-written the fall of Eve in terms of social and spiritual abuse of women she sees around her, male gender oppression is seen as original sin.”
Wallner
“CR is a suffering romantic, poems express pain of love.”
Hullah
“R’s poems encourage women to claim independence and agency.”
Blake
“R suggests a parallel between Christ-like suffering and feminine suffering.”
Bowra
Love released a melancholy desire for death
Virginia Woolf
“everything in CR’s life radiated from that knot of agony and intensity in the centre.”
Bocher
“Rossetti’s love for god always triumphs the love of another human.”
Avery
“intriguing manipulation of power.”
Bickley
There is nothing meek or self effacing in her demand for emotional fulfilment
CR “Face of the Deep”
countries preoccupation with wealth, power and influence is a dangerous vanity
Avery, Maude
clear critique of dominant masculinity
