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Locating the Real in a Goblin Market: Christina Rossetti and the Problem of Poetic Representation

Panel: 
Women in Literature I: Poetry
Abstract: 

This paper examines the problem of valuation in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market the level of both commodity and poetic representation. Rossetti uses the Eucharist as a figure for pure representation, an impossibility in a world defined via market value.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Samantha
Last Name: 
Cohen
Institution: 
University of California, Irvine