ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Goblin Market, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Victorian Era
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Rossetti (1830-1894: worked alongside brother dante, a famous painter, illustrated much of her work. Wanted to join but she couldn"t because she was a woman: intensely concerned with plight of fallen women: worked with prostitutes, never married, very religious (anglo-saxon) Keeps secrets from the uninitiated or profane: draw to austerity and self annunciation, focused on the cooperation between women, considered for poet laureate after tennyson, known for ballads, mystic religious lyrics, etc. The pre-raphaelite brotherhood: fought against neo-classical painting. Focused on flatness, no shadow, no contor. But more shimmer and highlights and everything on the surface. Goblin market (1862: allegory: two (or more) levels of meaning exist within the poem. Poem literally depicts two sisters" strange adventures in goblin- land but also allegories female sexuality in the victorian era. Commerece and the economy and the expansion of the british empire, etc: personal, domestic story. Women were expected to write poems of domestic issues and things that happened in the home.
