Enclosed Creativity in Christina Rossetti’s "Goblin Market"

Abstract

In this theoretical essay, I examine Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' through a Feminist lens of enclosure and entrapment. Further, I intertwine aspects of Rossetti's biography in my analysis to propose the argument that Rossetti utilizes themes of entrapment in her poem to navigate the challenges of creating as a woman in the nineteenth-century.