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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1982

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Adrienne Auslander Munich
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 12 , Spring 1984 , pp. 189 - 196
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References

A. Primary Works

A82:1.Dow, Miroslava Wein, ed. A Variorum Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’. [See A80:1.] ¶ Rev. byGoogle Scholar
Karlin, Daniel, Review of English Studies, 33 (08 1982), 351–35;CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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A82:2.Jack, Ian. “Browning on Sordello and Men and Women: Unpublished Letters to James T. Fields.” Huntington Library Quarterly, 45 (Summer 1982), 185–18. ¶ Reprints with extensive annotation six letters from RB to American publisher James T. Fields of the Boston firm of Ticknor, Reed, and Fields; on publication of Men and Women and Aurora Leigh, and on plans to revise Sordello.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
A82:3.King, Roma A. Jr., ed. The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Vol. 5. [See A81:3.] ¶ Rev. byGoogle Scholar
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B. Reference and Bibliographical Works and Exhibitions

B82:1.Freeman, Ronald E. “A Checklist of Publications [July 1981-December 1981].” SBHC, 10 (Spring 1982), 69–72.Google Scholar
B82:2.Kelley, Philip, and Hudson, Ronald. “The Brownings' Correspondence: Supplement to the Checklist.” BIS, 10 (1982), 163–68.Google Scholar
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C. Biography, Criticism, and Miscellaneous

C82:1. “Barrett Browning/Mitford Letters Published.” Through Casa Guidi Windows: The Bulletin of the Browning Institute, No. 6 (Winter 1982/1983), p. 7. ¶ Mary Russell Mitford's correspondence with her friend EBB, more than 500 letters, covers the most interesting period of Ebb'S life from her serious illness to the publication of Aurora Leigh.Google Scholar
C82:2.Berens, Michael John. “‘Startle Thee By Strangeness’: The Affective Strategy of the Maker-See in the Poetry of Robert Browning.” DAI, 43 (1982), 1149A (University of California, Los Angeles), Rb employed manipulations of speech to convey moral judgments and to “startle the reader to respond to a character with the truth within himself” (p. 1149).Google Scholar
C82:3.Berridge, Elizabeth. “A Visit to Florence.” BSN, 12 (04 1982), 13–19. ¶ Report of a visit to Florence by the London Browning Society.Google Scholar
C82:4.Elizabeth, Bieman. “Triads and Trinity in the Poetry of Robert Browning,” in Neoplatonism and Christian Thought, ed. O'Meara, Dominic J.. (International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. pp. 187–202. ¶ Reprint of C80:5.Google Scholar
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C82:6.Borowitz, Albert. “The Ring and the Book and the Murder.” A Gallery of Sinister Perspectives: Ten Crimes and a Scandal. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1982. pp. 1–10. ¶ Contrasts the legal judgments with those of the Roman citizens and primarily with the wider philosophical and social judgments of Pope and poet to conclude that a criminal case is not “the exclusive preserve of its parties, witnesses, lawyers, and judges, that it may have philosophic or social significance” (p. 9).Google Scholar
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C82:11.Cooper, Helen Margaret. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Theory of Women's Poetry.” DAI, 43 (1982), 1149A (Rutgers). ¶ A “consideration of the dialectic between the male poetic and the female cultural traditions” to which Ebb was heir provides a model for a theory of the woman poet's growth into her mature voice.Google Scholar
C82:12.Crowder, Ashby Bland. “‘Porphyria's Lover’: A Reason for Action.” South Central Bulletin, 37 (Winter 1977), 145–46. ¶ Perhaps Porphyria's lover is not a lunatic but coolly and rationally kills the woman he loves because he hates her for being dominating and deceptive.Google Scholar
C82:13.Crowder, Ashby Bland. “Robert Browning and His Publisher.” SBHC, 10 (Fall 1982), 49–52. ¶ Rb'S new and pleasant association with George Murray Smith, publisher of The Ring and the Book.Google Scholar
C82:14.Dahl, Curtis. “Learning and Loving: Browning's ‘Development’ and the Victorian Debate Over Education.” SBHC, 10 (Fall 1982), 23–24. ¶ “‘Development’ encapsulates a tremendous amount of the contemporary literary discussion of education and also expresses a theological position central to his [RB'S] liberal Christian faith” (p. 23).Google Scholar
C82:15.Davie, Donald. Dissentient Voice. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982. ix + 154 pp. ¶ “Robert Browning,” (pp. 32–47). “[G]reat poet though Browning is, he is none the less evidence – indeed, because of his great talents he is singularly compelling evidence – of how by the middle of the nineteenth century Dissent had become a vector of unen-lightenment” (p. 34). With extensive citations from Santayana andGoogle Scholar
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C82:16.Davies, Cory Bieman. “‘Another Pattern’: T. S. Eliot's Shifting Relationship to Robert Browning.” SBHC, 10 (Fall 1982), 35–48. ¶ While Eliot grudgingly accorded respect to RB, he was greatly influenced by RB'S dramatic form, an influence he gradually acknowledged.Google Scholar
C82:17.Doane, Margaret. “‘Thy Soul is in Thy Face’: Physical Appearance and Character in Browning's Poems.” SBHC, 10 (Spring 1982), 36–39. ¶ The face, particularly the eyes and smile, reveal the quality of the soul as a moral index.Google Scholar
C82:18.DuBos, Charles. Robert et Elizabeth Browning ou La Plenitude de l'Amour Humain. Paris: Klincksieck, 1982. xiv + 177 pp. ¶ Written between the wars; the influence and meaning of their union in their works, with consideration of early works as well as works during their marriage and Rb'S after Ebb'S death. In French.Google Scholar
C82:19.Gemmette, Elizabeth V. “Browning's ‘My Last Duchess’: An Untenable Position.” SBHC, 10 (Spring 1982), 40–45. ¶ Since the Duke is unable to actualize his self (impotence, either literal or figurative), he resorts to counterfeit by dominating and controlling others.Google Scholar
C82:20. “Happenings in Browning.” The Armstrong Browning Newsletter, No. 26 (Spring 1982), p. 3. ¶ Three Browning Societies report activities.Google Scholar
C82:21. “Happenings in Browning.” The Armstrong Browning Newsletter, No. 27 (Fall 1982), pp. 2, 4. ¶ Six Browning Societies report activities.Google Scholar
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C82:24.Kleefeld, Rena. “Pen's Christening Dress Restored.” Through Casa Guidi Windows: The Bulletin of the Browning Institute, No. 6 (Winter 1982/1983), p. 3. ¶ Restored outfit to be displayed in Pen Browning's birthplace.Google Scholar
C82:25.Lonoff, Sue. “MultipleNarratives and Relative Truths: A Study of The Ring and the Book, The Woman in White, and The Moonstone.” BIS, 10 (1982), 143–62. ¶ By using multiple narration both authors attempted to solve the epistemological problem of how to arrive at “the truth”; instead “they devised a method that establishes paradox on multiple levels” (p. 158).Google Scholar
C82:26.McAleer, Edward C. “The Brownings in Church and Chapel.” Through Casa Guidi Windows: The Bulletin of the Browning Institute, No. 6 (Winter 1982/1983), pp. 1–2. ¶ Religious observances of the couple, primarily in Italy.Google Scholar
C82:27.McKerrell, Alasdair. “Certainty of Experience: Dickens, with Reference to Brownings, 1883–1864.” BSN, 12 (04 1982), 2–12. ¶ Whereas Dickens overcame spiritual doubts by action, by “indubitable certainty of Experience,” as illustrated in his greatest novel, Little Dorrit, Browning, on the other hand, sought to subsume doubt into belief, as illustrated in Pauline and “A Death in the Desert.”Google Scholar
C82:28.Manson, Michael. “The Perils of Critical Algebra: A Response to Jeffrey Myers' ‘The Perils of Browning's Poets.’” SBHC, 10 (Spring 1982), 54–60. ¶ In his “Essay on Shelley” RB does not prescribe laws of poetry; rather he describes the ideal poet in literary history as one who combines objective with subjective mode, as an examination of “Fra Lippo Lippi” and other poems demonstrates.Google Scholar
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C82:31.Montiero, George. “The Presence of Camoes in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.” BSN, 12, Nos. 2–3 (1982), 19–21. ¶ Clarifies EBB'S interest in the Portuguese poet Luis de Camoēs.Google Scholar
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C82:40.Schleimer, Gloria. “Protected Self-Revelation: A Study of the Works of Four Nineteenth-Century Woman Poets, Marceline-Desbordes-Valmone, Annette Von Drosbe-Hubhoff, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Bronte.” DAI, 42 (1982), 4413A. (University of California, Irvine). ¶ Various strategies these women employed to balance the demand of the Romantic writer to reveal intimate emotions and the expectation that women be modest and self-effacing.Google Scholar
C82:41.Shaviro, Steven. “Browning upon ‘Caliban upon Setebos.’” BSN, 12, Nos. 2–3 (1982), 3–18. ¶ A psychoanalytic perspective on Caliban's reading of the world as text: “Caliban himself may be most satisfactorily characterized as the obsessive interpreter par excellence. He reads nature as a text with a hidden author, and ceaselessly endeavors to fix within an elaborate interpretative scheme himself and everything he encounters” (p. 3).Google Scholar
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C82:52.Woolford, John. “A Source for Browning's Ring Metaphor.” Notes and Queries, 227 (08 1982), 309–10. ¶ Bacon's image of a metal coin in Essay I expresses an equivocal attitude toward truth and lies; RB'S reversal of the image into a testimony about the “merely catalytic value of the imagination” (p. 310) leaves a trace of Bacon's contradictions while forcibly rewriting them.Google Scholar