Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Women Writers Series)

Drawing on previously neglected manuscripts, this new study deconstructs the gender and genre ideologies obscuring the achievement of England's first major woman poet. Marjorie Stone resituates Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her cultural context, demonstrating her prominence in nineteenth-century literary history and Victorian feminist discourse. Close readings illuminate the rich intertextuality of Barrett Browning's works, her revisions of the Romantics, her innovations in a range of genres and her creation of emancipatory strategies for the woman writer. "Drawing on previously neglected manuscripts, this new study deconstructs the gender and genre ideologies obscuring the achievement of England's first major woman poet. Marjorie Stone resituates Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her cultural context, demonstrating her prominence in nineteenth-century literary history and Victorian feminist discourse. Close readings reveal the allusive intertextuality of Barrett Browning's works, her revisions of the Romantics, her innovations in a range of genres and her creation of emancipatory strategies for the woman writer."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages i-xi Fighting on Her Stumps: The Woman, the Poet, the Myths....Pages 1-48 The Scene of Instruction: Romantic Revisionism....Pages 49-93 A Cinderella Among the Muses: Barrett Browning and the Ballad Tradition....Pages 94-133 Juno’s Cream: Aurora Leigh and Victorian Sage Discourse....Pages 134-188 A Handmaid’s Tale: The Critical Heritage....Pages 189-228 Back Matter....Pages 229-254 Marjorie Stone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.