Please post Fun Dracula stuff!

Here is the list of logical breaks in the reading over the next week:


For Tuesday (tomorrow) p, 160, end of Chapter 13 in which a big plot event transpires.


Thurs 12/3 p. 228 end of Chapter 19.


Tues 12/5 to the end, p. 327.

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS G. M. Hopkins

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Family Time

Within the first ten lines of reading aloud "Goblin Market," Elijah interrupted the long list of succulent fruits--"Is it a trick? If they eat the fruit, someone will eat them..."  Yes, we were proud parents! He was riveted during most of the story, except a bit at the end, which, when all get happily married, blah, blah, blah is pretty boring! But, that, of course, is the point.

Please post questions on Gabriel Rossetti and perhaps Hopkins too. 

Food for Thought on "The Goblin Market"

McGann, Gilbert, and Critical Approaches to the Poem

Anthony H. Harrison, Professor of English, North Carolina State University

Note 32, Chapter 4 of the author's Christina Rossetti in Context which the University of North Carolina Press published in 1988. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Two radically different perspectives on the poem are articulated by Jerome McGann and Sandra Gilbert. McGann reads the poem as a "prophetic" critique of Victorian marriage markets. For him, the poem is designed to convey ,the need for an alternative social order" (NER, 254). For Gilbert, the goblin mens fruits represent the "fruit of art" whose serious pursuit was forbidden to Victorian women (Madwoman in the Attic, 569-71). The most forceful feminist reading of Goblin Market appears in Homans's essay. She argues that Goblin Market "is about Poetic language as well as about female sexuality" and that Rossetti subverts patriarchal and androcentric traditions of romantic lyric in her poem by showing Lizzie "turning [the goblin men's] assault against their intentions, reappropriating their objectification of her body and transforming that Objectification into her own positive strategy. Having been reduced to mere body within a metaphoric [androcentric] economy by the goblins' assault, Lizzie, by understanding herself as inhabiting instead a metonymic economy ... experiences that body as a source of Power!' According to Homans's reading, Goblin Market demonstrates that "the cure of female sexuality subjected to romantic desire is the cure of metaphor into metonymy" ("'Syllables of Velvet,", 589),

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What was the inspiration for Elizabeth Barrett Browning's empathedic poetry about the slave mother and her fair skined child? What message was she trying to send?

Okay, I WILL cry if not one of you posts here.  And in class too.  It will be ugly.