“I Am Half Sick of Shadows”: The Tennysonian Intertext in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love”

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This article explores the intertextual relationship between Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love", one of the stories in The Bloody Chamber, and Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott". The parallelisms and ironic reversals between both texts are analyzed in detail.

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Angela Carter's Gothic reworking of "The Lady of Shalott" has gone unnoticed heretofore. This article shows Carter's treatment of one of the iconic texts of English literature.