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• Title: Conventionalism and Utopianism in the Commodification of Rossetti's "Goblin Market".
• Author : Extrapolation
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 195 KB

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The Goblin Market is seen as being a fairy tale trope: it is a metaphor for the figurative and literal interactions and transactions between the worlds of the fantastic and the mundane. Christina Rossetti brought this trope out from the recesses of folkloric convention to the forefront of Victorian literature with her poem of the same title in 1862. "Goblin Market" is, on its surface, a tale of two sisters who encounter a troop of sinister supra-natural merchants whose wares carry temptation and, potentially, damnation. These sisters, Lizzie and Laura, achieve redemption through the embrace of conventional morals and the observation of the rules of the Faerie world. However, "Goblin Market" is far more than that: it is an apt translation of the dangers that modernity posed for traditional society, and of the values that might conceivably survive the transition, making the survival of the people swept up in it possible. The Victorian period was a time of turmoil and adjustment; its people struggled to organize the traditions of the past and the innovations of the future into a comprehensible, orderly whole. Nowhere is this more evident than in the evolution of Victorian fairy poetry from the views implied by traditional folklore to their own unique and idiosyncratic positioning of Faerie within Victorian culture. The earliest works posited the fantastic, typically, as representing the disturbing incursion or the unfamiliar into their established order; later works presented the fantastic as representing an alternative, a potential solution. Christina Rossetti managed to integrate both positions in her poem, "Goblin Market." Jack Zipes notes that "the creation of fairy tale worlds by British writers moved in two basic directions from 1860 until the turn of the century; conventionalism and utopianism." (1) However, "Goblin Market," generally speaking, cannot be classified wholly as one or the other; instead, it is a combinations of both, combining the values of the past with the societal concerns of the present.

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