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Aurora Leigh

A Norton Critical Edition
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a seminal poetic novel exploring the aspirations and struggles of a woman poet in Victorian society. The text is enriched with annotations and contextual materials that deepen understanding of its themes, including women's roles, socialism, and poetic theory.
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This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.

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The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes.

Aurora Leigh is enriched with "Backgrounds and Contexts," featuring thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. These documents trace the book'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.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393962987

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 November 1995

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Margaret Reynolds

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 482g

Pages: 584

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Arts & Culture Elizabeth Barrett Browning Non-Fiction Poetry Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. Margaret Reynolds is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. She is the editor of the variorum Aurora Leigh (Ohio University Press, 1992), Erotica (Pandora and Ballantine, 1990), and The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (1994). She is co-editor (with Angela Leighton) of Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (Basil Blackwell, 1995). She is currently at work on Sappho's Companions.

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