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Title: Aurora Leigh
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Norton Critical Edition
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Contributor: Margaret Reynolds (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0393962989
EAN: 9780393962987
ISBN: 9780393962987
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 01/03/1996
Description: The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh’s inception, evolution, and publication.

Seven contemporary documents—on the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theory—place the text historically.

"Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 1899–1993.

A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, Deirdre David, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 213mm
Item Length: 132mm
Item Width: 33mm
Item Weight: 482g
Book Series: Norton Critical Editions
Release Year: 1996

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