The Victorian Poet and His Readers: The Strange Case of Tennysons «The Princess» (Encounters. The Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture, Literature, and Visual Arts Book 4)

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