... issue in her poem "The Goblin Market". Although she too was somewhat influenced by the hegemonic view of the time, "Goblin Market", for the most part, rejects this view. The poem employs a vastly different mode of dealing with this socially constructed binary with a view toward understanding and reconciling this issue. This is attributed to the fact that Christina Rosetti's work was produced through a female, rather than a male, gaze, but, equally as important, that it was largely informed by Christian sensibilities of compassion and good works. D.G. Rosetti's "Jenny", on the other hand, lacks any resolution to the issue because not only is it steeped in the patriarchal view, but it is also devoid of the concepts of true compassion and Christian moral duty found "Goblin Market" (and in many of the mid-Victorian female writers' works). Conversely, the intellectual view takes center stage, despite the sometimes flowery ...

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