This new study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning challenges the dominant cultural myths of the poet as a solitary recluse, self-exiled from the world of politics, by arguing that she was one of the most astute and politically-informed critics of the...
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This new study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning challenges the dominant cultural myths of the poet as a solitary recluse, self-exiled from the world of politics, by arguing that she was one of the most astute and politically-informed critics of the social and political events of her time
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-245) and index. - Print version record
Introduction: a poet lost and regained / Simon AveryConstructing the poet Laureate of Hope End: Elizabeth Barrett's early life / Simon Avery -- Audacious beginnings: Elizabeth Barrett's early writings / Simon Avery -- Culture of the soul: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics / Rebecca Stott -- Voice of a decade: Elizabeth Barrett's political writings of the 1840s / Simon Avery -- Genre: a chapter on form / Rebecca Stott -- 'How do I love thee?': love and marriage / Rebecca Stott -- 'Twixt church and palace of a Florence street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Italy / Simon Avery -- 'Where angels fear to tread': Aurora Leigh / Rebecca Stott.
Verlag:
Taylor and Francis, Florence
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age....
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This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age. The authors present a biographical survey, study of her poetry, its critical reception and an assessment of her influence on later poets. This book also examines the complex 'myths' which are associated with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and offers re-readings of her life and work, particularly in dispelling the myth of the ailing invalid poet-recluse and instead showing her to be one of the great intellectuals of her day, immersed in European history and politics from a very early age. The book situates Browning within broader historical,political and cultural contexts than have yet been examined enabling a better understanding of her poetry and paints the portrait of a fine and innovative poet, an intellectual and an astute political thinker.
