Contents
- The Text of Aurora Leigh
- Frontispiece of the 1859 Revised Fourth Edition
- Title Page for the Revised Fourth Edition
- Aurora Leigh
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- A Note on the Text
- Selected Textual Notes
- Backgrounds and Criticism
- Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning on Aurora Leigh
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, [The Declining Character of the Women of England and How It Might Be Rectified]
- Catherine Napier, [Women’s Rights and Duties]
- Dinah Mulock, A Woman’s Thoughts About Women
- Charles Fourier, [A Trial Phalanx]
- William Rathbone Greg, Prostitution
- M.A. Stodart, [Poetry and the Poetess]
- Elizabeth Barrett and Richard Hengist Horne, [Elizabeth Barrett on Thomas Carlyle and the "Prophet-Poet"]
- Criticism
- CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL RECEPTION
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- H.F. Chorley, From The Athenaeum (November 22, 1856)
- George Eliot, From Westminster Review (January 1857)
- W.E. Aytoun, From Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1857)
- Coventry Patmore, From North British Review (February 1857)
- John Nichol, From Westminster Review 68 (October 1857)
- ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
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- Lilian Whiting, [The Lyrical Philosophy of Aurora Leigh]
- Marjory A. Bald, [The Negative Approach]
- Virginia Woolf, "Aurora Leigh"
- J.M.S. Tompkins, [Aurora’s Mistakes]
- Ellen Moers, [The Myth of Corinne]
- Cora Kaplan, [The Right to Write]
- Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, [Reconciling Love and Work]
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis, To "bear my mother’s name": K¸nstlerromane by Women Writers
- Susan Standford Friedman, Gender and Genre Anxiety: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and H.D. as Epic Poets
- Angela Leighton, ’"Come with me, sweetest sister"’: The Poet’s Last Quest
- Deirdre David, From Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy
- Marjorie Stone, Genre Subversion and Gender Inversion: The Princess and Aurora Leigh
- Helen M. Cooper, [Structure and Narrative in Aurora Leigh]
- Dorothy Mermin, [The Idea of the Mother in Aurora Leigh]
- Alison Case, Gender and Narration in Aurora Leigh
- Joyce Zanona, "The Embodied Muse": Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics
- Holly A. Laird, Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica
- Angela Leighton, [Men and Women: Poetry and Politics]
- Margaret Reynolds, [Allusion in the Verse-Novel: Experimental Bricolage]
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
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