"Your Harlot Roofs": Women, Individualism, and the Towers of Idylls of the King.

This essay examines the role of women in Tennyson's Idylls of the Kin g, focusing especially on the significance of towers within the poem. I argue that Tennyson rereads these structures' usual coding as glorified medieval backdrops as sites of confinement, which thus prompt rebellion. The towers re...

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Published in:	Victorian Poetry Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 164 - 196
Main Author:	David, Monica
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Summer2025
Subjects:	Patriarchy Individualism Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 Imaginary places Women's writings Gender role Poetry (Literary form) Victorian (Literary period)
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