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- proper noun A female
given name
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Examples
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What I find transgressive about "Christabel" is the way in which it treads upon the fine line of external appearance that separates the gender-bending sapphist from the virtuous friend.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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Moreover, the shifting nature of authority in "Christabel" traces a parodic model of creativity that Shelley adopts and refines in her novel.
Mocking Stupendous Mechanisms: Romantic Parody and Frankenstein's Dream 2003
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Gothic conventions in "Christabel," but he is wryly commenting on the loftier aspirations of his contemporaries as well.
Mocking Stupendous Mechanisms: Romantic Parody and Frankenstein's Dream 2003
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Coleridge's lines in "Christabel," flashed into Eleanor's memory:
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Although the encounter between Geraldine and Christabel is shrouded in mystery, the poem makes clear as much through its silences as through its images that something sapphic happens in Christabel's bed that fateful night.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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Christabel is forcibly deprived of her utterance by
Mocking Stupendous Mechanisms: Romantic Parody and Frankenstein's Dream 2003
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"Perhaps he will -- he's taking out someone called Christabel this evening."
Paradise For Two Neels, Betty 1989
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Resuming the thread of my letter, I come to the question of the name Christabel, viz.: -- as to whether it is to be found earlier than Coleridge.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892
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"Agreed," said Father Malachi, finishing a bumper, and after giving a few preparatory hems, he sang the following "singularly wild and beautiful poem," as some one calls Christabel: --
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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"Agreed," said Father Malachi, finishing a bumper, and after giving a few preparatory hems, he sang the following "singularly wild and beautiful poem," as some one calls Christabel: --
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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