Context (OCR A-Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Tractarianism
Tractarianism
Anglo-Catholic mvmt: sacramental worship & religious discipline
Pre-Raphaelite lushness
Pre-Raphaelite lushness
Intense visual beauty, vivid colours, & sensory richness
Sacramental reality
Sacramental reality
Belief that ordinary objects carry spiritual significance
Spinster vocation
Spinster vocation
Deliberate unmarried life as religious calling
No. of Rossetti's rejected marriage proposals
No. of Rossetti's rejected marriage proposals
Three (embracing celibate vocation)
Highgate Refuge
Highgate Refuge
Where Rossetti volunteered with 'fallen women' (1860s)
Goblin Market publication year
Goblin Market publication year
1862 (at height of Pre-Raphaelite influence)
The Germ (1850)
The Germ (1850)
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's artistic journal
Eschatological urgency
Eschatological urgency
Concern with death, judgment, and salvation
Indian Rebellion year (Jhansi poem)
Indian Rebellion year (Jhansi poem)
1857 (Amy Horne died in this conflict)