Volume-XI, Issue-IV, July 2025 |
Gender Polemics, Mapping Gendered Worlds in Tennyson’s Major Poems Meghamitra Goswami, Independent Researcher, Birnagar, Nadia, West Bengal, India |
Received: 21.07.2025 | Accepted: 28.07.2025 | Published Online: 31.07.2025 | Page No: 861-866 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.11.issue.04W.119 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
This critical explication puts forward a contention of gendered topoi-masculine and feminine worlds within the poetic oeuvre of the well-known poet from the Victorian era, Lord Alfred Tennyson, panoptically focusing on his major poems like The Lady of Shalott, The Lotos-Eaters, Mariana, and Ulysses. Implementing an eclectic approach, to sieve the poems through New Historicism, Feminist Criticism, Ecocriticism Lenses, Psychoanalysis and Gendered Studies, this journal expounds the portrayal of binaries like temporal linearity/ cyclical stasis, exterior heroism/ interior repose, and active conquest against passive containment as proposed by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Keywords: Feminine World, Masculine World, Heroic Agency, Performative Gender, Normative Binaries, Feminine Sphere, Cyclical Temporalit |