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Article: Conventionalism and utopianism in the commodification of Rossetti's "Goblin Market".
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- March 22, 2004
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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. ...
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