TY - JOUR
AU1 - Coulson, Victoria
AB - Redemption and Repre sen ta tion in Goblin Market: Christina Rossetti and the Salvic S fi ignie fi r VICTORIA COULSON ritical pieties die hard on the well- trodden slopes of Christina Rossetti’s C“mossy glen” (l. 87). “[T] here is no market in Goblin Market,” Simon Humphries pointed out in 2007, an observation that has gone stubbornly un- noticed, or unpro cessed, in subsequent scholarship on the poem. Rather than reconsidering the now venerable tradition of market- oriented readings of Ros- setti’s text— a tradition whose founding moment we may locate in the early 1990s, when scholars such as Elizabeth Campbell, Terence Holt, Elizabeth K. Helsinger, and Richard Menke proposed their inu fl ential accounts of the poem as a more or less radical critique of commodity capitalism: in Herbert Tucker’s catchy formula, “put[ing] the market back in Goblin Market”— recent critics have ignored this exceptionally clear- sighted, and disruptive, ele ment in Humphries’s analys is. In an article published in 2010, Jill Rappoport signals that it is business as usual in the critical agora with her description of how, “[i]n critical readings of Christina Rossetti’s most popu lar poem, the titular and titillating market has increasingly taken center stage 
TI - Redemption and Representation in Goblin Market: Christina Rossetti and the Salvific Signifier
JF - Victorian Poetry
DA - 2018-04-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/west-virginia-university-press/redemption-and-representation-in-goblin-market-christina-rossetti-and-qBj5IKc20m
SP - 423
EP - 450
VL - 55
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve