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Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1/e

Rebecca Stott
Simon Avery
Published June 2003 by Longman
Copyright 2003, 264 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0582404703

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Summary

This is a biographical survey, as well as, a study of Barrett Browning's poetry & its critical reception, and an assessment of her influence on later poets..KEY TOPICS: This book examines the complex 'myths' which are associated with Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The authors offer 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. The text 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. MARKET: For readers interested Browning or Victorian poetry

Features

Informative, accessible and engaging introduction to the poet and her work
Places Barrett Browning firmly in the context of contemporary social and political debates of her time
Major reassessment of one of the most important and loved poets of the nineteenth-century

Simon Avery works in the Department of Humanities, at the University of Hertfordshire.
Rebecca Stott works in the Department of English, at the Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: A POET LOST AND REGAINED

1. CONSTRUCTING THE POET LAUREATE OF HOPE END: ELIZABETH BARRETT'S EARLY LIFE

2. AUDACIOUS BEGINNINGS: ELIZABETH BARRETT'S EARLY WRITINGS

3. THE CULTURE OF THE SOUL: ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING'S POETICS

Rebecca Stott

4. THE VOICE OF A DECADE: ELIZABETH BARRETT'S POLITICAL WRITINGS OF THE 1840'S

5. GENRE: A CHAPTER ON FORM

Rebecca Stott

6. 'HOW DO I LOVE THEE?': LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Rebecca Stott

7. 'TWIXT CHURCH AND PALACE OF A FLORENCE STREET': ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ITALY

8. 'WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD': Aurora Leigh

Rebecca Stott

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