1. Vicotorian Models in the Poetry of Christina Rosseti
Rossetti viewed the Victorian marriage market as a place of competition and betrayal. ... Most aptly epitomised in the telling title of Coventry Patmore's immensely popular verse novel The Angel in the House (1854), the Victorian concept of womanhood stressed woman's purity and selflessness. ... But what she becomes engrossed in is a soulless love as a sluggish wife, as her marriage lacked all intensity and passion she had desired. ... In Victorian society women were looked as being devoid of passions or desires. ... " Fallen women, considered as the woman who has had s...
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