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"Eat me, drink me, love me": Eucharist and the erotic body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.(essay)(Victorian poetry studies)(Critical essay)

From: Victorian Poetry  |  Date: 12/22/2005  |  Author: Hill, Marylu

In the scholarship surrounding Goblin Market, there is no dearth of readings which focus on the erotic nature of its imagery. In addition, any number of readings of the poem focus on its allegorical rendering of spiritual redemption. Few readings, however, have attempted to bridge the gap between these two approaches. And almost none, as Diane D'Amico has noted in her work Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time, have "yet given any detailed attention to Rossetti's Eucharistic ...

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