Tennyson and the text : the weaver's shuttle / Gerhard Joseph
1992, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409150
ISBN: 0521413907
Physical description; 274 pp. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Contents; Part I. Victorian Warp: Perception ; Tennyson's stupidity -- and ours ; Dream houses of 'etherisity' : Poe and Tennyson ; The aesthetic of particularity and the aesthetic of vagueness : the owl and the eagle ; The sharp and the blurred : Julia Margaret Cameron and Tennyson ; The mirror and the echo en abyme in Victorian poetry interweave -- my lady('s) shuttle: the alienation of work into text -- Part II. Victorian Woof: Representative Men And Mystified Women ; Homeric competition : mythic reflections of representative men ; From sensuous idea to mythic woman: knowledge, wisdom, and Pallas Athene ; Tennyson choosing : the three women ; Choosing Tennyson : the stranger's hovering sword ; Last words : Tennyson's Cymbeline. Subjects; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809-1892 Criticism and interpretation. Lady of Shalott. Critical studies.
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