Critical Essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning

by Lund Roger, D.

• ISBN13: 9780783884615
• ISBN10: 0783884613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Twayne Pub

Summary

Essays address romantic works of this English poet ("Aurora Leigh, Sonnets from the Portuguese"), many inspired by her husband, Victorian poet Robert Browning.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Note	ix
Publisher's Note	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Sandra Donaldson
Experiments in Poetic Technique [from Mrs. Browning, A Poet's Work and Its Setting]	15	(17)
Alethea Hayter
A Little Hemming and More Greek [from Elizabeth Barrett Browning]	32	(6)
Mary Jane Lupton
Elizabeth Barrett's Two Sonnets to George Sand	38	(4)
Sandra Donaldson
The Ring, the Rescue, and the Risorgimento: Reunifying the Brownings' Italy	42	(29)
Flavia Alaya
Introduction [from Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems]	71	(31)
Cora Kaplan
Women's Writing: Jane Eyre, Sbirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh [excerpt]	102	(10)
arxist-Feminist Literature Collective
Working into Light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning	112	(17)
Helen Cooper
``New Yet Orthodox''---The Female Characters in Aurora Leigh	129	(12)
Kathleen Hickok
The Domestic Economy of Art: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning	141	(16)
Dorothy Mermin
Casa Guidi Windows and Aurora Leigh: The Genesis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Visionary Aesthetic	157	(7)
Dolores Rosenblum
``Art's a Service'': Social Wound, Sexual Politics, and Aurora Leigh	164	(20)
Deirdre David
Cursing As One of the Fine Arts: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Political Poems	184	(18)
Marjorie Stone
Combating an Alien Tyranny: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Evolution As a Feminist Poet	202	(16)
Deborah Byrd
Stirring ``a Dust of Figures'': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Love	218	(15)
Angela Leighton
``Some Interchange of Grace'': ``Saul'' and Sonnets from the Portuguese	233	(11)
Mary Rose Sullivan
The Vision Speaks: Love in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ``Lady Geraldine's Courtship''	244	(14)
Glennis Stephenson
The Death of Pan: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Romantic Ego	258	(17)
Margaret M. Morlier
Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica	275	(16)
Holly A. Laird
Mapping Sublimity: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese	291	(15)
Jerome Mazzaro
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Hebraic Conversions: Feminism and Christian Typology in Aurora Leigh	306	(18)
Cynthia Scheinberg
Lady's Greek without the Accents: Aurora Leigh and Authority	324	(9)
Alice Falk
The Discourse of Power in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Criticism	333	(10)
Daniel Karlin