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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Title
Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Simon Avery.
Author
Avery, Simon.
Publication
Tavistock : Northcote House, 2011.

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xix, 126 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this study, Simon Avery considers a range of her poems, drawn from across her career, in order to examine the concern with the search for a meaningful home which underpins much of her writing. In a series of interrelated Chapters on Barrett Browning's religious poetry, love poetry, political poetry, and her major work, Aurora Leigh, he explores the ways in which the speakers and protagonists of her poems constantly search for a place of security and stability even though this often seems finally unattainable. Attention is also given to Barrett Browning's own search for a home in relation to inherited poetic models and traditions, and her establishment of an often radical poetics. --Book Jacket.
Series Statement
Writers and their work
Uniform Title
Writers and their work.
Subject
  • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Poets, English > 19th century > Biography
  • Women poets, English > 19th century > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-119) and index.
Contents
The shaping of poetics -- The search for a spiritual home - The search for an emotional home -- The search for a political home -- Restructuring home: Aurora Leigh -- conclusion: The exile and the empty house.
Call Number
JFD 12-2600
ISBN
  • 9780746312063 (pbk.)
  • 0746312067 (pbk.)
  • 9780746312018
  • 0746312016
OCLC
559809718
Author
Avery, Simon.
Title
Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Simon Avery.
Imprint
Tavistock : Northcote House, 2011.
Series
Writers and their work
Writers and their work.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-119) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 12-2600
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