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George eliot Marian Evans 1819-1880
- From “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
- She was strongly affected by the Evangelist
- She had a painful hopelessness life
- Born at a farm
- Coventry- intellectual growth
- abandoned religion
- Choice-making
- Sees herself as a historian
- A novelist the greatest
- Realist novelist
- Not a typical feminist writer but a feminist
- Despite personal desire adherence to duty
- duty should be specified? it is ambiguous
- Vindication? anything reprehensible in that work { I don’t think so}
- American transcendentalism ? she was not part of that but she was befriending those people like Emerson,
- Emancipation of women, issue of larger concept of ……
(missed it)
- George Elliot admired Margaret Fuller so she did book review of her
- Sympathetic to the feminist issues but she was not an activist
- no need to exaggerate women’s skill just ask nicely, world is not ready for military like feminist
- Pdf pg 53
- Compare and contrast Margaret and Mary, what George Elliot doing
- Margaret say that man fears the women’s strength ?
- Man afraid the faculty of women that settles them on equal ground she also points o the ignorant and feeble minded woman.
- Coquette strength
- To return to Margaret…. pg 54 pdf
- If weakness is not controlled it will govern both men and women.,
- what is a women? problematical and starts feminism
- Femi-Nazi pdf page 55
- Early form of Feminism not radical because humanity is not ready
- Elliot exposes the basic injustice against women in the 19th century, this time of inequality, for Fuller there are historic precedence of ideal of equality, she is more conservative than radical, she is for larger democratic ideals.
Christina Rosetti 1830-1894
- An anglo-catholic widow
- The Church of England
- Goblin Market a moral fable for children
- Temptation and Sin
- Trying to resist
- her poetry resembles to music
- what kind of a poem? categorize, in a way cautionary tale
- Fruits stand for something, original sin , will power for sinning
- Tale , narrative and dramatic
- Laura cannot resist the temptations Lizzie say dont be tempted
- Melodic descriptions rhythmic verses
- Come buy come buy “ Goblins says
- fantasy world
- Why all the fruits pointed? what is the reason
- Temptation = fruit, sin, carnal desires
- Original sin
- Alluring, playful language, inviting, but in the backdrop it is darkening
- attraction of physical desires
- Taste and try
- Ripe, erotic
- blooming peaches etc erotic, uncontrolled desires
- ripeness, taste, sensual language used, highlighting 5 senses
- Laura golden head, blonde, slanted
- merchant selling things, devil selling products,
- extra effort to resist temptations
- negation language of Lizzie cautionary
- Curiosity*
- Cat’s face, seek affection, tempting feminine image*,
- aabbcc heroic couplet musical unity
- Leering sexual connotation
- poor girls had no money
- she give some of her hair golden hair and she gets sick
- sucking the fruit sexual erotic undertones* sexual maturity and ripeness
- story within a story Jeanie
- Laura’s oblivion
Lizzie with an open heart,
Laura in an absent dream,
One content, one sick in part;
One warbling for the mere bright day’s delight,
One longing for the night.
- suffering, sacrificing self to overcome the temptations
- Life out of Death refer to Ancient Mariner death in life, surreal
- Good moral family life is blessing
- Freudian Connotations as in Goblins
- Lizzie keeps her mouth shut, pockets close, sexual connotations, sucking the fruit
- Goblins; male gaze, social gaze, super ego surrounding
- Merchandise, middle class values in which women fall prey. there is always an exchange in life, you have to give something to get something
- Laura sold her body to male oppression, how women fall from grace? Fallen Women
- Male Gaze world, libido and the male ego represented by the evil eyes of the Goblins
- Strong will saves the one who is going to be tempted
- extremely disturbing poem*? sexually abused tortured* Rossetti has a strong Christian view
- Marxist approach as in purchasing
- Feminist approach as women selling the body to get buy
- Lacanian and Freudian approach as in the connotations of sexuality and ego id super ego as Goblins
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Week VI: Pre-Raphaelite Art&Poetry: Dante Gabriel Rossetti “My Sister’s Sleep”
Week VII: The Women Poets of the time, the poets of the female sentimental tradition, Elizabeth Barret Browning: from Book 5 of Aurora Leigh.; Christina Georgina Rossetti “Goblin Market,” George Eliot “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft”.