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.
