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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Barrett Browning"”.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Robert Browning's Poetry
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… century women, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, rewrote the myth. Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, presents two Promethean figures - the scientist and the monster - and so embodies the ambivalence of its author. Barrett Browning translated Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound twice, and …
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Apocalyptic care : the renewal of creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… I study the religious poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and challenge those prevailing assumptions through taking the poets' religious commitments seriously as sources of hope and aesthetic formation. Ultimately, I demonstrate that their …
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
… gender relationships. Specifically, Elizabeth Barrett Browning challenges religious and literary authority as a woman writer whose vivid use of devotional language displays the soul in its formative processes and contests readers' ideas of Christian unity. Quite by contrast, as a …
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“O Bella Libertà”: the Experience of Travel and the Representation of Italy in the Works of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot
… of literary texts by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot will help establish a connection between their journey to the Peninsula and their development as women and writers. The separation from their homeland and the confrontation with Italian culture were indeed pivotal …
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
… women poets Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Amy Levy and their use of religion in their proto-feminist works, “Goblin Market” (Rossetti), the verse novel Aurora Leigh (Barrett Browning), and the dramatic monologues “Xantippe,” (1881) “Magdalen,” (1884) and “A Prayer” …
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
… seminal figures as Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Charlotte Mew. Few would now deny that writers such as Barrett Browning and Rossetti are major figures of Victorian poetry, as integral to the canon as Robert Browning, Swinburne or Tennyson, but for nearly a …
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"The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill
… poets and inherited and expanded by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Stuart Mill in the Victorian period through their "literary self-portraits."These texts have often evaded the scrutiny of scholars because they reject the hardened generic categories of traditional autobiography and embrace …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… specific focus on Geraldine Jewsbury, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, I closely examine the ways in which these female redactors invoke and challenge male-authored texts within an established patriarchal literary tradition in order to create for themselves a distinctly …
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
… I show how works by Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and the lesser-known but fascinating Darwinian poet Mathilde Blind draw on language-science to explore the redistribution of political power in the age of reform.</p>
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Poe as a critic.
… Hawthorne, Dickens, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Halleck, and Drake. In these critiques he enlarges upon his own principles of criticism. In the Literati he reveals literary America of this century. The Marginalia shows his remarkable power of commentary. Through his criticisms, …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… of Letitia Landon, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Howard argues that the resonance of many voices in Victorian elegies underscores a paratactic, eclectic approach to the recovery of voice, in which repurposing, echoing, and call-and-response structures …
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… of America. Close reading the verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, my dissertation shows the connections between the turmoil of an antebellum America to the numerous relationship bonds in Browning's antislavery poem. Although British women were disenfranchised, liberation lyrics provided a …
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I Shall But Love Thee Better After Death: A Rediscovery of Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 22 (1910)
… and published all forty-four poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s masterwork of English poetics, yet this work remains mostly unknown. The initial chapter of this dissertation offers a biographical background of the composer, including her musical training, advocacy for American vocal music, and …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… this developing paganism. I argue that Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, and George Egerton offer Pan as an icon of competing pagan masculinities within the context of the contrast between Victorian secular ways of being worldly and pagan revivalist ways of being …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Charlotte Yonge, and Amy Levy. It analyzes how their heroines wield literal and metaphorical vision to navigate the male gaze and male surveillance of the Victorian art world. These authors …
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Radical Conservatism and Victorian Poetry: 1830-1906
… poems by Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Charles Doughty – all of whom transform existing expressive repertoires in ways that offer neither a return to myths of origin nor a simple break from the past. Where Carlyle deems poetry incapable of regeneration, I suggest …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… British authors such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Seacole, and Wilkie Collins rejected popular notions of blackness as a racial marker of African slavery with its implied negative qualities. Instead, their works convey a different idea about blackness as a pliable marker of …