Essays about: "Alfred Lord Tennyson"

Found 1 essay containing the words Alfred Lord Tennyson.

  1. 1. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Li Hedenmalm; [2018]
    Keywords : Alfred Lord Tennyson; Idylls of the King; Howard Pyle; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; Victorian literature; ecocriticism; nature; wilderness; industrialism; animalisation; nostalgia; paradise;

    Abstract : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. READ MORE