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- Title
Gender, Language, and the Politics of Disembodiment in Aurora Leigh.
- Authors
BARROW, BARBARA
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem “Aurora Leigh” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It explores contrasting themes of physicality and disembodiment, gender, and femininity. A exploration of the poem's political aspects is made. It studies the influence of the authors John Locke, Robert Chambers, and Thomas Carlyle on Browning's poetry.
- Subjects
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; AURORA Leigh (Poem : Browning); GENDER in literature; FEMININITY in literature; WOMEN in literature; INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2015, Vol 53, Issue 3, p243
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2015.0019