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Women’s Abject Status and the Concept of the Anomalous in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market

Paola Partenza
2020-01-01
2020
Mantua Humanistic Studies
Partenza Paola
MANTUA HUMANISTIC STUDIES
Inglese
STAMPA
245
272
28
978-88-3369-087-2
Universitas Studiorum
Mantova
ITALIA
Following Julia Kristeva’s theoretical approach on the concept of abjection, my aim in this essay is to show how Christina Rossetti, by criticising her soci- ety, tries to strengthen the moral principles of young women by re-sacralising the female role. She, explicitly, denounces the vulnerability of women and their di culty in extricating themselves from abject situations. To this end, her poem, Goblin Market, should be viewed as a vehicle for her considerable criticism by identifying the evils hidden in society; a society in which women must protect themselves from being considered “neither subject nor object” (Kristeva 1982: 1). Still, through Deleuze and Guattari’s theory, I would like to suggest how the construction of men, in Rossetti’s poem, seems to be framed within the concept of the anomalous embodied by the goblin men.
Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari, Laqueur, Goblin Market, ab- jection, evils of sex, re-sacralization, anomalous.
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