Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Goblin Market, Coventry Patmore, Leon Koudelak

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B
• Professor: Selma Purac

Document Summary

Christina rossetti writes a poem about gender anxieties. Laura and lizzy gather water by the stream and hear goblin cries who run the market. After tasting the fruit she cant hear the goblins. On a deeper level, victorian anxieties between woman"s place in an emerging market (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) How do women move into a space that is ruled and defined by men. In the pre-industrial era: men were consumers of commercial objects. Older paintings arises as men showing the rest of the world how wealthy they are (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Women as signs of luxury to be consumed by men. Wanted a woman to be beautiful, venus represents an abundance to consume, her husband/father/ brothers can afford to keep her healthy and well fed- sought out in the culture of the time. Its not limited to a certain time period, the female ideal of beauty- according to today"s stands is considered overweight, but back then skinny women represented poverty.