On the Contradictory Feminism behind the Contradictory Image of Eve in Christina Georgina Rossetti’s Works

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10.2991/assehr.k.201214.530How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Christina Georgina Rossetti, emotions of paradox and ambivalence, Eve, the feminism

Abstract

Emotions of paradox and ambivalence is the label of British Victorian poetess Christina Georgina Rossetti, as for this outstanding religious poetess, who is struggling in the conflicts between religious passion and secular longings, Eve is the contradictive mixture of “the first fallen woman” and “the mother of all living”. And in Rossetti’s view, all women are the daughters of Eve, born as another Eve, to understand these seeming inconsistencies and apparent contradictions, it is needed to examine in detail Rossetti’s view of Eve, for behind all her views on woman’s rights, duties, and privileges in this world stands the image of the first mother. Based on the contradictory image of Eve in her text, this paper analyzes the contradictions of Rossetti’s complicated feminism.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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