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- Title
Revising Respiration: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and the Shared Breath of Poetic Voice in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh.
- Authors
Nesbit, Kate
- Abstract
The article presents a poetry criticism for the verse-novel "Aurora Leigh," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, focusing particularly on how the poem embraces ideas of mesmerism, spiritualism, and shared breath and breathing within the work. The author also provides insights taken from Browning's letters to her husband.
- Subjects
AURORA Leigh (Poem : Browning); BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; MESMERISM in literature; SPIRITUALISM in literature; RESPIRATION in literature; POETS' correspondence; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2018, Vol 56, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2018.0014