Norming the female body: discourses of sexuality in Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Acón Chan, Lai Sai
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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This article explores the contradictions resulting from sexual discourse constructed in the nineteenth century from a hegemonic model that determines sexual rigid sex roles of Victorian English society. Some literary works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti and Charles Swinburne related with these issues are discussed.
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Pre-Raphaelites, ideology of literary creation, Victorian sexual politics, representations of women, fallen woman, Lily/Rose dichotomy, new woman