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

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Magdalena Pype¿, Magdalena Pypec
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9783631672303
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67230-3
• No. of pages: 131
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 12 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 280 g
• Series: Encounters. The Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture, Literature, and Visual Arts; Encounters. The Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture, Literature, and Visual Arts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies