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- Title
"What profits me my name?" The Aesthetic Potential of the Commodified Name in Lancelot and Elaine.
- Authors
Barton, Anna Jane
- Abstract
The article argues that the use of name in Alfred Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine" marks the point in his own career in which name stopped being such a fraught issue. Name can be a means of both aesthetic experience, as a poetic signifier, and as a commodity, as in the name of someone famous. In this way Tennyson was able to wrap himself in the fame and protection conferred by his famous name to experiment, as he did in "Lancelot and Elaine," a retelling of "The Lady of Shalott."
- Subjects
NAMES in literature; IDYLLS of the King (Poem : Tennyson). Lancelot &; Elaine; TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; NAMES -- Social aspects; LADY of Shalott, The (Poem : Tennyson); VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2006, Vol 44, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2006.0019