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- Title
Crafting Social Criticism: Infanticide in "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" and Aurora Leigh.
- Authors
FICKE, SARAH H.
- Abstract
A critique is presented of the poem "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" and the novel-poem "Aurora Leigh" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, focusing on Browning's arguments in favor of women's ability to create art about oppression and social problems based on individual cases without generalizing. The social conditions of women in 19th century England, infanticide in poetry, and social reform in literature are also discussed.
- Subjects
RUNAWAY Slave at Pilgrim's Point, The (Poem : Browning); AURORA Leigh (Poem : Browning); BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861; ENGLISH women poets; OPPRESSION in literature; INFANTICIDE in literature; SOCIAL problems in literature; NINETEENTH century; SOCIAL conditions of women; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 2, p249
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2013.0009