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Christinia Rossetti and the Gender Politics of Fantasy

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The Victorian Fantasists

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Christina Rossetti’s use of fantasy demonstrates her recognition of its dangerous power. In this essay I wish to propose a gendered reading of the two title poems of her first commercially published collections, Goblin Market and The Prince’s Progress, which is predicated on Rossetti’s recognition of the patriarchal imperialism within the visual and written texts against which she was writing.1

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  1. Barbara Garlick
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  1. The University of Queensland, Australia

    Kath Filmer (Specialist Tutor in English) (Specialist Tutor in English)

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Garlick, B. (1991). Christinia Rossetti and the Gender Politics of Fantasy. In: Filmer, K. (eds) The Victorian Fantasists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21277-4_10

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