Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott": An Overview (original) (raw)

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General

• Text of the Poem
• Biographical Materials
• Tennyson's Other Works

Literary Relations

• Relation to Tennyson's other works — Its place in his poetic development
• Influence upon Victorian fiction

Artistic Relations — Paintings and illustrations of the poem

• An introduction
• The embowered lady by a window
• the climactic moment she first sees Lancelot
• the dead Lady in her boat floating on the river
• Pre-Raphaelite
• A List of Illustrations and paintings of the subject
• Men vs. Women: Illustrating "The Lady of Shalott"
• A Lady of Shalott Gallery

The Victorian Context

• The Cultural Context: Victorian Medievalism
• Social and Political Contexts:Victorian conceptions of women

Theme and Subject

• Victorian conceptions of women
• The Lady of Shalott: Pre-Raphaelite Attitudes Toward Woman in Society
• The Artist and Society

Technique

• Place in Tennyson's Poetic Development
• Irony in the poem
• Structure
• Narration and Point of View
• Genre and Mode
• Setting: The Confinement of the Artist in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalot"

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Last modified 127 December 2006