Quest for Eros: Browning and 'Fifine' (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154718)

Students of Browning have long been puzzled by the discrepancies between the dramatic framework of Fifine and its symbolic development, but these difficulties are resolved in Southwell's explication by a biographical hypothesis. The powerful influence of the memory of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, involved Browning in a deep ambivalence, and Fifine at the Fair represents his effort to escape the effects of the profound inhibitions associated with her memory, while at the same time remaining loyal

Author: Samuel B. Southwell
ISBN-10: 0813154715
ISBN-13: 9780813154718
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d