The Commodification Of Goblin Market By Helen Pilinovsky

In the article, Helen Pilinovsky supports that the poem is made for two audiences, the innocent and mature, and that the poem "reflects the growing commodification of Victorian culture resulting from the Industrial Revolution, extending even to the commodification of personal interaction". This article compares the fairy tale narrative to Goblin Market and makes the claim that Rossetti’s “market” represents economic and social transgression. Pilinovsky uses the interaction between the sisters and the goblins to support her argument, in which Lizzie "is interested in partaking of their custom only on her own terms, a fact which obviously displeases them" and the goblins react as they "attempt to have their will of her physically, when they