The Victorian Poet and His Readers: The Strange Case of Tennyson's «The Princess»

ISBN-13: 9783631672303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 131 str.

Magdalena Pypec

Opis

The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson s The Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson s reconsideration of gender binaries and women s rights as well as the poem s reliance on the aesthetics of the grotesque and its metapoetic games. The book rests on the premise that literature cannot be studied in isolation from its immediate socio-historical context. As such, poetry becomes an outcome of social and cultural negotiations, moving -in a strange diagonal- between the author and his public."

Spis treści

Contents: Victorian literary criticism - Literature and its immediate socio-historical context - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Princess - Tennyson's reconsideration of gender binaries and women's rights - Aesthetics of the grotesque - Metapoetic games - The author and his public - The picture of poetry as an outcome of social and cultural negotiations.

O autorze

Magdalena Pypec teaches English literature at the Warsaw University, Poland.
Her research focuses on Victorian poetry and prose.