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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.

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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.

The Victorian Poet and His Readers: The Strange

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/04/2016
      ISBN13: 9783631672303, 978-3631672303
      ISBN10: 3631672306

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table 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.

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