Aurora Leigh: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393962987)

The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh's inception, evolution, and publication.

Seven contemporary documents--on the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theory--place the text historically.

"Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 1899-1993.

A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, Deirdre David, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN-10: 0393962989
ISBN-13: 9780393962987
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/17/1995
Pages: 584
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.10w x 1.20d