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."
The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson s The Princess through the prism of their cr...
