A Study of the Transvestite(s) Demasculinized in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Princess”
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Abstract
This paper is divided into two sections. The first section touches upon the transformation of the male protagonists into women via cross-dressing – its implied meaning and meaninglessness, the discourse of transcendence taking flight from masculinity and its overall connotations. The second section argues why such an action of re-masculinizing serves nothing more than achieve an ultimate obscure deferral of the de-masculinized male, taking the female under its wings in the process.
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1. Bloom, Harold ed. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Infobase Publishing, 2010.
2. Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa. “Marginalized Musical Interludes: Tennyson’s Critique of Conventionality in The Princess”. Victorian Poetry, vol. 38, no. 2, 2000, pp. 227-248. PROJECT MUSE, 10.1353/vp.2000.0013. Accessed 8 Apr, 2018.
3. Hall, Donald E. “Anti-Feminist ideology of Tennyson’s “The Princess.”” Modern Language Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, 1991, pp. 49-62. JSTOR, 10.2307/3194982. Accessed 8 April, 2018.
4. Hill Jr., Robert W ed. Tennyson’s Poetry. W.W. Norton and Company, 2005.
5. Johnston, Eileen Tess. “This were a Medley”: Tennyson’s The Princess.” ELH, vol. 51, no. 3, 1984, pp. 549-574. JSTOR, 10.2307/2872937. Accessed 8 April, 2018.
6. Joseph, Gerhard. “Tennyson’s Three Women: The Thought Within the Image”. Victorian Poetry, vol. 19, no. 1, 1981, pp. 1-18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40003143. Accessed 8 Apr, 2018.
7. Kincaid, James R. Tennyson’s Major Poems. Yale University Press, 1975.
8. Stone, Marjorie. “Genre Subversion and Gender Inversion: “The Princess and “Aurora Leigh.”” Victorian Poetry, vol. 25, no. 2, 1987, pp. 101-127. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40002089. Accessed 11 May, 2018.
9. Stott, Rebecca ed. Tennyson. Longman, 1996.
10. Turner, Paul. Tennyson. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976.
11. Urdang, Lawrence ed. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Allied Publishers Private Limited, 1972.
12. Watson, Jeanie. “Tennyson’s “The Princess”: The Ideal of “Like in Difference.”” South Central Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 1987, pp. 63-81. JSTOR, 10.2307/3189602. Accessed 8 Apr, 2018.
13. Wright, Barbara Herb. “Tennyson, the Weird Seizures in The Princess and Epilepsy.” Literature and Medicine, vol. 6, 1987, pp. 61-76. PROJECT MUSE, 10.1353/lm.2011.0022. Accessed 8 Apr, 2018.
Published
2019-02-05
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Hore, S. N. “A Study of the Transvestite(s) Demasculinized in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Princess’”. Contemporary Literary Review India, Vol. 6, no. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 24-43, https://mail.literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/289.
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