Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness

1. Introduction: The Enigma of Englishness
Marion Sherwood

2. ‘A Poet in the Truest and Highest Sense’: The Early Poems and their Reception
Marion Sherwood

3. ‘Mr. Tennyson’s Singular Genius’: The Reception of Poems (1832)
Marion Sherwood

4. ‘Mr. Tennyson’s Truly English Spirit’: Landscape and Nature in Poems (1842)
Marion Sherwood

5. ‘Fair Victoria’s Golden Age’: Tennyson and Monarchy
Marion Sherwood

6. ‘To Serve as Model for the Mighty World’: Tennyson and Medievalism
Marion Sherwood

7. ‘Ever-broadening England’: Tennyson and Empire
Marion Sherwood

8. Conclusion: Fabricating Englishness
Marion Sherwood

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History