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- Title
A Woman's Castle is Her Home: Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult as Domestic Fairy Tale.
- Authors
RANUM, INGRID
- Abstract
A criticism is provided of the poem "Tristram and Iseult" by Matthew Arnold. The author notes that Arnold created the first modern retelling of the tale, and that he emphasized the character of Tristram's wife, Iseult of Brittany, more than his lover, Iseult of Ireland, and her wrathful husband Mark. Reference is made to the expectations placed upon Victorian women seen in the long-suffering character Iseult of Brittany, who tends her home despite her dying husband's longing for another woman.
- Subjects
TRISTRAM &; Iseult (Poem); ARNOLD, Matthew, 1822-1888; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; THEMES in poetry; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 2, p403
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0055