“I’m half sick of shadows”. Alfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott as a metaphor for the Victorian ideal of femininity and its reflection in the 19th century art.
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Eviternare.vi8.9838Keywords:
Tennyson, Shalott, Victorian, Pre-raphaelite, XIX centuryAbstract
In an atmosphere of medieval revivalism and recovery of the Arthurian tradition, Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) wrote in 1833 what would become one of his most famous poems, The Lady of Shalott. In it, he recovers the figure of the Maid of Astolat created by Sir Thomas Malory in The Death of Arthur (1485). Soon she would become one of the paradigmatic heroines of the poet and one of the favorite iconographic motifs of pre-Raphaelite and Victorian artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Likewise, both the poem and the pictures have been taken as illustrations of Victorian attitudes toward women and their sexuality.
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