Rossetti - critics A05

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Josephine Pearce
"Rossetti makes her an active and sensual woman who seeks satisfaction."
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Joshua Backer
"Rossetti predominantly expresses an emotional love and not a sexualised love."
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Kent
"Goblin Market is about rejecting carnal lust and finding sexuality in marriage."
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Lars Wallner
"Rossetti was a suffering romantic, while her poems might express love, it is the pain of love."
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William Acton
"The majority of women are not troubled with sexual feeling of any kind."
"The existence of [female] sexual excitement is a form of insanity."
"women either throw their morals to the wind or are good, honest mothers..."
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Anthony Harrison
"Focus is not on the possibility of fulfilling earthly love, or upon the betray in love, but rather renunciation."
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Simon Avery
"emphasises the way in which women might be trapped by convention."
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Woolf
"A quiet and observant child with her own way of life already fixed in her head."
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Joseph Bristow
"a woman such as Laura may fall and yet rise again, as long as a 'sister' like Lizzie is there to save her."
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Simone de Beauvoir
"in a patriarchal culture, a woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other."
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Marianne Skoczek
"her women are often- and increasingly so - strong rather than weak, and that Rossetti herself was a conscious observer and critic of the 'option' open to Victorian women."
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Lynda Palazzo
"Rossetti had radically rewritten the fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women which she sees around her and includes more than a hint that the male gender oppression to be interpreted as original sin."
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Welss
"Rossetti creates analogies between the biblical description of salvation and in the social context of Victorian [England]."
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Joshua Backer

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"Rossetti predominantly expresses an emotional love and not a sexualised love."

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Kent

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Lars Wallner

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William Acton

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