
Aurora Leigh
Edited by Kerry McSweeney
Elizabeth Barrett Browning(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published in July 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-19-283653-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West Country to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her first decade of adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on art, love, God, the Woman Question, and society. This is the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283653-3 (9780192836533)
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Kerry McSweeney
Aurora Leigh
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07/2008
Oxford University Press
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Kerry McSweeney
Aurora Leigh
E-Book
07/1998
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
Book
07/1993
Oxford Paperbacks
€7.43
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