Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

30/04/2020
Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

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Episode Synopsis

Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market is one of her best known. Although it is ostensibly about two sisters' misadventures with goblins, critics have interpreted the piece in a variety of ways, seeing it as an allegory about temptation and salvation, a commentary on Victorian gender roles and female agency, and a work about erotic desire and social redemption.