ANTH 4220 Chapter Notes -Goblin Market, Napoleonic Wars, Lay Brother
Document Summary
Family possessed high social and intellectual achievements: grandpa polidori, uncle john. Plot moves across gendered spaces - lizzie and laura"s home seen as a female sphere or space. Laura"s adventure is seen as bildungsroman; her innocence, fall (biblical), suffering, awakening, and rise(senaha) Analepsis/prolepsis, time sequence in the poem: analepsis (material from before the story began) introduces jeanie whose story proleptically foreshadows the possibility of harm to laura. Jeanie is the woman with the fall (biblical: j hillis miller, narrative . Repeated trope or dif cult word - goblin market (goblins introduce the disjuncture b/ w rossetti"s real world and the fantastic) Lizzie saves laura in the end, and restores both their youth and innocence. Line 101 and 556: men sell not such in any town - introduces the possibility of things that are tempting, or unreal; the goblins of course are not real; teaches a lesson.
