Week of 11 October: Discussion Questions by Members of English/History of Art 151

Christina Rossetti

• Torn Between Earthly and Spiritual Love — "The Convent Threshold"
• Buy from us with a golden curl — Rossetti and Rossetti
• The seductiveness of death in Christina Rossetti's 'The Goblin Market'
• Goblin Market: The Forbidden Fruit
• A Displacement of Love: Christina Rossetti's "Song"
• No Sad "Song"
• "While of me what will they say?": Addressing the unnamed lady
• Loss of Earthly Love in "Monna Innominata"
• Scars: The Plight of Women in Rossetti's "A Daughter of Eve"

Dante Habriel Rossetti

• Journeying through a World of Strife: Rossetti's "The Staff and the Scrip"
• Scenes of Reading in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Jenny"

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