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Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Simon Avery and Rebecca Stott.
- Title
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Simon Avery and Rebecca Stott.
- Author
- Avery, Simon.
- Publication
- Harlow : Longman, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR4194 .A94 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 254 p.; 22 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0582404703
- OCLC
- 50716830
- SCSB-12045437
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library