| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature |
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Studies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.
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| Contents |
Introduction: a poet lost and regained / Simon Avery -- Constructing 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-245) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 fast |
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. swd |
| Subject |
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
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Women poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Poets, English
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Women poets, English
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stott, Rebecca
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| ISBN |
9781317877042 |
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1317877047 |
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