The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)

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Autor(a) principal: Guimarães,Paula Alexandra
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: This article intends to explore the image of the mythical woman (Athena) in one of the first Victorian works on a feminist utopia, Alfred Tennyson’s long mock-heroic narrative poem The Princess (1847), and how contemporary women poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh (1857) responded not only to his representation of the feminine, and of the battle of the sexes enacted in it, but also to his way of writing. As its subtitle A Medley indicates, the poem is a deliberate mixture of different genres and genders: the lyrical and the epic, the feminine and the masculine, suggesting not only innovative experimentation in terms of traditional literary forms but also a problematization of essentialist images and concepts. Yet, for Tennyson, the resolution of the political conflict is dependent on the resolution of the love plot, which ultimately results in the highly contested transformation of the feminist ‘Ida’ in a domestic figure.
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title The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
spellingShingle The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
Guimarães,Paula Alexandra
Athena
gynotopia
Tennyson
gender
genre
title_short The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
title_full The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
title_fullStr The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
title_full_unstemmed The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
title_sort The image of the mythical woman in mid-victorian gynotopia: gender and genre in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847)
author Guimarães,Paula Alexandra
author_facet Guimarães,Paula Alexandra
author_role author
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Athena
gynotopia
Tennyson
gender
genre
topic Athena
gynotopia
Tennyson
gender
genre
description This article intends to explore the image of the mythical woman (Athena) in one of the first Victorian works on a feminist utopia, Alfred Tennyson’s long mock-heroic narrative poem The Princess (1847), and how contemporary women poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh (1857) responded not only to his representation of the feminine, and of the battle of the sexes enacted in it, but also to his way of writing. As its subtitle A Medley indicates, the poem is a deliberate mixture of different genres and genders: the lyrical and the epic, the feminine and the masculine, suggesting not only innovative experimentation in terms of traditional literary forms but also a problematization of essentialist images and concepts. Yet, for Tennyson, the resolution of the political conflict is dependent on the resolution of the love plot, which ultimately results in the highly contested transformation of the feminist ‘Ida’ in a domestic figure.
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