{"product_id":"elizabeth-barrett-browning-selected-writings-9780198797630","title":"Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Writings","description":"This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Barrett Browning's work within the rich context of her life and writing career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe revaluation of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work by feminist scholars has made her an established author in university syllabuses in Britain and in America. Yet the reception of Barrett Browning as a writer within an explicitly female tradition has tended to limit the appreciation of her wider contribution to English literary culture in the nineteenth century, just as her popular image as a ringleted romantic heroine served sentimentally to eclipse her role as a literary pioneer. This edition complements or corrects these emphases by being the first edition dedicated to witnessing the progress and growth of the poet's creative direction--from her juvenilia through to her major achievements and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe selection of works presented here appear in the order in which they were originally published, enabling students and readers to experience the contours of Barrett Browning's poetic career. Thus, following selections from published juvenilia, The Battle of Marathon (1820) and 'An Essay on Mind' and Other Poems (1826) and from 'Prometheus Bound' and Miscellaneous Poems (1833), there are more extensive selections from 'The Seraphim' and Other Poems (1838), from Poems 1844 and from Poems 1850 including the full text of Sonnets from the Portuguese. Substantial excerpts from Casa Guidi Windows (1851) is followed by the full text of \u003cem\u003eAurora Leigh\u003c\/em\u003e (1857) and by selections from the posthumous\u003cem\u003e Last Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1862). These individual sections are supplemented by careful selections (also chronologically ordered) from the correspondence, including the courtship letters with Robert Browning, and, where applicable, from poetry unpublished in the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExplanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Barrett Browning, and a Chronology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosie Billington, \u003cem\u003eDeputy Director, Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems, University of Liverpool\u003c\/em\u003e, Philip Davis, \u003cem\u003eDirector, Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems, University of Liverpool\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJosie Billington is a specialist in Victorian Literature who has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction and poetry. Her publications include \u003cem\u003eFaithful Realism\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), (ed) \u003cem\u003eElizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eEliot's Middlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), (ed) \u003cem\u003eMargaret Oliphant Novellas\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). She is also engaged in interdisciplinary medical humanities research in the area of reading and health, with \u003cem\u003eIs Literature Healthy?\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2016). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip Davis is author of \u003cem\u003eVolume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians\u003c\/em\u003e in The Oxford English Literary History series (2002). His other works include \u003cem\u003eSudden Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eShakespeare Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), and two biographies, \u003cem\u003eBernard Malamud: A Writer's Life\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2007) and \u003cem\u003eThe Transferred Life of George Eliot\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2017). He is general editor of a new series from Oxford University Press, \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Agenda\u003c\/em\u003e, on the future of literary studies in the twenty-first century, contributing his own volume \u003cem\u003eReading and The Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) building on \u003cem\u003eThe Experience of Reading\u003c\/em\u003e (1991) and \u003cem\u003eReal Voices: On Reading\u003c\/em\u003e (1997). He is editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318340817170,"sku":"9780198797630","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e915898-dfd2-4ba5-ba21-d7bde421d463.jpg?v=1727553664","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elizabeth-barrett-browning-selected-writings-9780198797630","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}