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Problematic Treatment of Womanhood in Rossetti’s Poems: A Critical Study

Abstract

The literary works by Christina Rossetti portray the plight of Victorian women. In her poems ‘From the Antique’ and ‘Goblin Market’, we come across how her own works are contradictory to each other. With a psychoanalytic and feminist theoretical framework, this essay will attempt to study the problematic representation and treatment of womanhood in poems by Christina Rossetti, namely, 'From the Antique’ and ‘Goblin Market’. It would also reflect on how the Victorian Era itself marked a contradiction between faith and doubt, which is reflected in the contradictoriness in Rossetti’s life and her works.

Divyashree Das*

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