Ripeness and Waste: Christina Rossetti's Botanical Women

Christina Rossetti's poetry, so interested in human relationships to cycles of ripeness and decay, suggests an intriguing concern with what it means to waste: to waste time, to waste space, and to waste resources. Equally important to her poetry is the related question of what it means to be wasted. This paper explores figures of botanical, agricultural, and ecological waste by attending to a question loosely rooted in ecofeminist debate: what happens when women's bodies are troped as a natural resource? Early in the Rossetti renaissance, Antony H. Harrison noted that "images of the harvest predominate [in her poetry], suggesting that one reaps what one sows" (122). But what happens when you are what is sown, what is reaped? In Rossetti's depictions of fruitlessness and waste, we can glimpse a surprising degree of resistance to familiar associations of female corporeality with nature.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Miller, Ashley

Đề mục:

English literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Indiana University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2019

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Định dạng:

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.61.2.03

Nguồn gốc:

Victorian studies, Volume 61, Number 2, Winter 2019, Pages 194-203

Liên kết:

ISSN 0042-5222

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Ripeness and Waste: Christina Rossetti's Botanical Women

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