![]() ![]() The chapter ends with a consideration of Jeanie as a figure for reading and the reading effect. It is a history, furthermore, which illustrates a compelling dynamics between the agency of poem and critic. ![]() The chapter then focuses upon the reception history of ‘Goblin Market’ as curiously structured by the text’s discursive double-ness. The chapter begins by unfolding what I term the consumptive signature that is Christina Rossetti: a sign for authorship that is always already situated within the site of its own sexual, economic and pathological consumption. ![]() Indeed, the poem presents itself meta-textually as a paradigm for reading its own reception history proleptically and as a commentary on the shaping of Christina Rossetti within the Victorian literary marketplace. This final chapter turns to address the critical consumption of Rossetti’s most famous poem, ‘Goblin Market’, which affords a case study of the afterlife of her poetry and persona. As a cultural artefact, our access to Christina Rossetti is always structured in this way, however dependent we might be on the illusion of an authentic literary, historical or biographical origin. ![]() In the previous chapters we have been tracing Christina Rossetti as a product of the literary and biographical after-effect, together with something in between these effects which exists in the relationship between the critical reader and the signature. ![]()
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