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Article: "Eat me, drink me, love me": Eucharist and the erotic body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.(essay)(Victorian poetry studies)(Critical essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
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- December 22, 2005
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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 beliefs," (1) even though Eucharist as sacrifice and saving meal is clearly at the heart of Goblin Market. But, as I will argue in this essay, the both/and nature of Rossetti's central image of ...