![]() ![]() Helsinger, and Richard Menke proposed their influential accounts of the poem as a more or less radical critique of commodity capitalism: 3 in Herbert Tucker’s catchy formula, “put the market back in Goblin Market” 4-recent critics have ignored this exceptionally clear-sighted, and disruptive, element in Humphries’s analysis. Rather than reconsidering the now venerable tradition of market-oriented readings of Rossetti’s text-a tradition whose founding moment we may locate in the early 1990s, when scholars such as Elizabeth Campbell, Terence Holt, Elizabeth K. 1 “ here is no market in Goblin Market,” Simon Humphries pointed out in 2007, 2 an observation that has gone stubbornly unnoticed, or unprocessed, in subsequent scholarship on the poem. Critical pieties die hard on the well-trodden slopes of Christina Rossetti’s “mossy glen” (l. ![]()
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