Aurora Leigh

Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Secondary Author: Margaret Reynolds
ISBN: 9780393962987

The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textualnotes."Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerptsby Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace AuroraLeigh's inception, evolution, and publication.Seven contemporary documents—on the "woman question," prostitution,socialism, and poetic theory—place the text historically."Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from theperiod 1899–1993.A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf,Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, DeirdreDavid, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publish Date: 1996

Subjects: Fiction / General, Poetry / American / General, Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Poetry)