Aurora Leigh (Norton Critical Editions)

, by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Reynolds, Margaret

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ISBN: 9780393962987 | 0393962989
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/17/1995

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This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds' variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.

Preface

vii

The Text of Aurora Leigh

(326)

Frontispiece to the 1859 Revised Fourth Edition

(1)

Title Page for the Revised Fourth Edition

(2)

Aurora Leigh

(322)

A Note on the Text

313

(2)

Selected Textual Notes

315

(12)

Backgrounds and Contexts

327

(74)

Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning on Aurora Leigh

329

(20)

[The Declining Character of the Women of England and How It Might Be Rectified]

349

(8)

Sarah Stickney Ellis

[Women's Rights and Duties]

357

(4)

Catherine Napier

A Woman's Thoughts About Women

361

(6)

Dinah Mulock

[A Trial Phalanx]

367

(6)

Charles Fourier

Prostitution

373

(14)

William Rathbone Greg

[Poetry and the Poetess]

387

(4)

M. A. Stodart

[Elizabeth Barrett on Thomas Carlyle and the ``Prophet-Poet'']

391

(10)

Elizabeth Barrett

Richard Hengist Horne

Criticism

401

(157)

Contemporary Critical Reception

403

(28)

The Athenaeum (November 22, 1856)

403

(4)

H. F. Chorley

Westminster Review (January 1857)

407

(2)

George Eliot

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (January 1857)

409

(14)

W. E. Aytoun

North British Review (February 1857)

423

(2)

Coventry Patmore

Westminster Review 68 (October 1857)

425

(6)

John Nichol

Essays in Criticism

431

(127)

[The Lyrical Philosophy of Aurora Leigh]

431

(1)

Lilian Whiting

[The Negative Approach]

432

(7)

Marjory A. Bald

``Aurora Leigh''

439

(8)

Virginia Woolf

[Aurora's Mistakes]

447

(2)

J. M. S. Tompkins

[The Myth of Corinne]

449

(4)

Ellen Moers

[The Right to Write]

453

(5)

Cora Kaplan

[Reconciling Love and Work]

458

(5)

Sandra Gilbert

Susan Gubar

To ``bear my mother's name'': Kunstlerromane by Women Writers

463

(3)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Gender and Genre Anxiety: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and H. D. as Epic Poets

466

(7)

Susan Standford Friedman

` ``Come with me, sweetest sister'' ': The Poet's Last Quest

473

(11)

Angela Leighton

Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy

484

(10)

Deirdre David

Genre Subversion and Gender Inversion: The Princess and Aurora Leigh

494

(12)

Marjorie Stone

[Structure and Narrative in Aurora Leigh]

506

(2)

Helen M. Cooper

[The Idea of the Mother in Aurora Leigh]

508

(6)

Dorothy Mermin

Gender and Narration in Aurora Leigh

514

(6)

Alison Case

``The Embodied Muse'': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics

520

(14)

Joyce Zanona

Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica

534

(6)

Holly A. Laird

[Men and Women: Poetry and Politics]

540

(12)

Angela Leighton

[Allusion in the Verse-Novel: Experimental Bricolage]

552

(6)

Margaret Reynolds

A Chronology

558

(5)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Selected Bibliography

563

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