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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
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Literary Criticism
Avery, Simon. "Telling it slant: Promethean, Whig, and dissenting politics in Elizabeth Barrett's poetry of the 1830s." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Billone, Amy. "'In silence like to death': Elizabeth Barrett's sonnet turn." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2001.
Dalley, Lana L. "'The least 'Angelical' poem in the language': political economy, gender, and the heritage of Aurora Leigh." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Davies, Corinne. "Two of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Pan poems and their after-life in Robert Browning's 'Pan and Luna.'" Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Dieleman, Karen. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning's religious poetics: Congregationalist models of hymnist and preacher." Victorian Poetry, Summer 2007.
Dillon, Steve. "Barrett Browning's poetic vocation: crying, singing, breathing." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2001.
Fish, Laura. "Strange Music: engaging imaginatively with the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a Creole and Black Woman's perspective." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Hoagwood, Terence Allan. "Biblical criticism and secular sex: Elizabeth Barrett's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom." Hoagwood notes, "like Jean Ingelow's epic retelling of the episode of Noah in A Story of Doom, Elizabeth Barrett's poem has nothing to do with religion in any sense that would be understood by a literal believer." Victorian Poetry, Summer 2004.
Inboden, Robin L. "Damsels, dulcimers, and dreams: Elizabeth Barrett's early response to Coleridge." Victorian Poetry, Summer 2008.
Johnson, Stephanie L. "Aurora Leigh's radical youth: derridean parergon and the narrative frame in 'A Vision of Poets.'" Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Lootens, Tricia. "Publishing and reading 'Our EBB': editorial pedagogy, contemporary culture, and 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.'" Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Martens, Britta. "'Hardly shall I tell my joys and sorrows': Robert Browning's engagement with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics." Victorian Poetry, Spring 2005.
Marshall, Gail. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare: translating the language of intimacy." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Mermin, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989). Excerpt covers EBB's poems on the new theme of love in Poems, 1850, including "A Man's Requirements." Preview at Google Books. Publisher's description.
Morlier, Margaret. "The hero and the sage: Elizabeth Barrett's Sonnets 'To George Sand' in Victorian context." Victorian Poetry, Fall 2003.
Neri, Barbara. "Cobridme de flores: (un)covering flowers of Portuguese and Spanish poets in Sonnets from the Portuguese." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Pollock, Mary. Introduction to Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/7/01.
Pollock, Mary. Overview of the history, plot, and form of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/4/2003.
Pollock, Mary S. "The anti-canonical realism of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Lord Walter's Wife.'" Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring 1996, Vol. 29 Issue 1.
Ryan, Brandy. "'Echo and reply': the elegies of Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett." Victorian Poetry, Fall 2008.
Saunders, Clare Broome. "'Judge no more what ladies do': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's active medievalism, the female troubadour, and Joan of Arc." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Smulders, Sharon. "Sincere doubt, doubtful sincerity, and Sonnets from the Portuguese." ANQ, Fall 1995, Vol. 8 Issue 4.
Stone, Marjorie; Taylor, Beverly. "'Confirm my voice': 'My sisters,' poetic audiences, and the published voices of EBB." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Taylor, Olivia Gatti. "Written in blood: the art of mothering epic in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." [Aurora Leigh] Victorian Poetry, June 2006.
Taylor, Beverly. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the politics of childhood." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2008.
Tucker, Herbert F. "An ebbigrammar of motives; or, ba for short." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Wegener, Frederick. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italian independence, and the 'critical reaction' of Henry James," "Examines Henry James' antagonistic view of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's devotion to Italy and the Italian Risorgimento. Clash of critical ideologies between the two writers; Encounter between the two as a reminder of the hazards of negotiating the relations between poetics and politics." Studies in English Literature, Autumn 1997, Vol. 37 Issue 4.
Woodworth, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, and Alfred Tennyson on Napoleon III: The Hero-Poet and Carlylean Heroics." Woodworth contends that "like the Hero-Poet that Carlyle describes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning undertakes a heroic mission in the last volume of poems published in her lifetime, Poems before Congress, a volume supporting the Italian Risorgimento." Victorian Poetry, Winter 2006.
Introduction, Biography
A brief introduction to Elizabeth Barrett Browning from educational publisher Gale.
A short introduction to the Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning from a PBS special.
The Victorian Web has essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background, Dr. George Landow.
"Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University, contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions.
Web Sites
Web site for the Armstrong Browning Library, at Baylor University, dedicated to the Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. The site includes access to "The Brownings: A Research Guide," a comprehensive online research guide to all known Browning-related material, some 70,000 items.
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities.
Web site for Women's Writing, an international scholarly journal focusing on women's writing up to the end of the long nineteenth century. A sample copy is available for viewing, requires registration.
A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies.
Donaldson, Sandra, general editor. "The first modern scholarly edition" of EBB's poems. Publisher's web site: The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Five Volumes. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
Cultural and Historical Context
"Victorianism." Essays topics include Victorianism as a Fusion of Neoclassical and Romantic Ideas; The Complex Realities of Victorianism; Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History; The fundamental conflicts of Victorian poetry; Density and Elaborate Interconnectedness of High and Late Victorian culture; The Difficulties of Victorian Poetry; Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture; Victorian taste; Victorian Design; Race in Thought and Science; Victorian Earnestness; The Seaside in the Victorian Literary Imagination; Tennyson and Victorianism; The Victorian Gentleman; Crisis of Organized Religion; Queen Victoria. From George Landow's Victorian Web.
"A Dictionary of Victorian London." Victorian social history through a "dictionary" of Victorian institutions.
"Monuments and Dust," a project creating a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London. By Lee Jackson.
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