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Robert Browning

A Literary Life

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Pauline and Mill

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 11-39
  3. Sordello and the Reviewers

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 40-51
  4. Drama, Macready and Dramatic Poetry

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 52-79
  5. Browning and Ruskin: Reading and Seeing

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 112-145
  6. Publishing, Copyright and Authorship

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 178-208
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 209-232

About this book

Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key nineteenth-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing.

About the author

SARAH WOOD teaches English at Mansfield College, Oxford. She has published articles on nineteenth-century poetry and on literary theory.

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