Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market": An Overview

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Christina Rossetti

• The Life of Christina Rossetti
• Additional Biographical Information
• A Christina Rossetti: Chronology
• Christina Rossetti's Literary Career
• A review of Jan Marsh's Christina Rossetti — A Writer's Life

Works

• "Goblin Market" (full text of poem)
• Other Works

Literary, Artistic, Religious, and Other Cultural Contexts

• Literary Relations
  • General
  • Coleridge's Ancient Mariner
• Artistic Relations
  • Visual imagery and depictions of women in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's accompanying illustrations
  • Rossetti and the Visual Arts
  • 1930s music inspired by "Goblin Market"
• The Cultural Context: Victorianism
• Gender Matters
• Religion and Philosophy
  • Fallen or Forbidden: Rosetti's "Goblin Market"
  • Religion in Victorian England: An Overview
  • Church of England
  • Tractarianism
• Social and Political Contexts
• Science and Technology

Theme and Technique

• Themes
  • Betrayed Love — a section from Harrison's Christina Rossetti in Context
  • Can I know it? — Nay: An Alternative Interpretation of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
  • Love as an Influence on Christina Rossetti
    
  • Theme in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"
  • McGann, Gilbert, and Critical Approaches to the Poem
  • Themes in Rossetti's Other Works
• Imagery, Symbolism, and Motif
• Structure
• Narration and Point of View
• Genre and Mode
  • The Subjectivity of Fantastic Visions
  • A Brief Discussion of Victorian Fantasy — Setting and Character

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Last modified 28 July 2006