'Something in the ballads which they sang': James's 'Rose-Agathe' and Tennyson's The Princess Symbiosis 14.1
Symbiosis 14.1
Author: Miranda El-Rayess
Pages: 19
'‘Something in the ballads which they sang’: James’s ‘Rose-Agathe’ and Tennyson’s The Princess' by Miranda El-Rayess, provides a comparative analysis of Henry James's short story 'Rose-Agathe' and Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem 'The Princess'. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the thematic and narrative parallels between the two works, focusing on how James engages with Tennysonian motifs and ideas. El-Rayess examines the ways in which James's use of irony and allusion critiques conventional gender roles and objectification. This scholarly work is essential for readers interested in literary criticism, gender studies, and transatlantic literary influences.
Symbiosis 14.1
Author: Miranda El-Rayess
Pages: 19
'‘Something in the ballads which they sang’: James’s ‘Rose-Agathe’ and Tennyson’s The Princess' by Miranda El-Rayess, provides a comparative analysis of Henry James's short story 'Rose-Agathe' and Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem 'The Princess'. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the thematic and narrative parallels between the two works, focusing on how James engages with Tennysonian motifs and ideas. El-Rayess examines the ways in which James's use of irony and allusion critiques conventional gender roles and objectification. This scholarly work is essential for readers interested in literary criticism, gender studies, and transatlantic literary influences.
Symbiosis 14.1
Author: Miranda El-Rayess
Pages: 19
'‘Something in the ballads which they sang’: James’s ‘Rose-Agathe’ and Tennyson’s The Princess' by Miranda El-Rayess, provides a comparative analysis of Henry James's short story 'Rose-Agathe' and Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem 'The Princess'. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the thematic and narrative parallels between the two works, focusing on how James engages with Tennysonian motifs and ideas. El-Rayess examines the ways in which James's use of irony and allusion critiques conventional gender roles and objectification. This scholarly work is essential for readers interested in literary criticism, gender studies, and transatlantic literary influences.
 "Standing on his balcony and enjoying the hustle and bustle of the Parisian street and the fragrant spring air, a man watches another man gazing longingly into a hairdresser’s shop window. Thus begins James’s 1878 tale, ‘Théodolinde’, later renamed ‘Rose-Agathe’. The man on the balcony is James’s anonymous American narrator, and the figure he is watching is his friend Sanguinetti, an Italian-American antique collector and ‘the perfect authority on pretty things’. The narrator assumes that the object of his friend’s admiration is the hairdresser’s beautiful wife, and over the coming weeks he observes with amusement his determined, business-like approach towards ‘making her [his] own’. It is not until Sanguinetti achieves this end and invites his friend home to admire his new acquisition that the narrator realizes his mistake. Instead of finding a lovely woman, he sees the blonde-haired wax dummy that had previously been placed in the coiffeur’s shop window as an advertisement." |
