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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1994

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Sandra M. Donaldson ,
Dominic Bisignano  and
Mark Magness
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , fall 1997 , pp. 389 - 402
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References

A. Primary Works

A94: 1.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Refocillation: From ‘Preface to Mrs. Browning's Poems Published in 1844’.” VP 32.2 (Summer 1994): 140.Google Scholar
A94: 2.Browning, Robert. Men and Women. ¶Rev. by *Observer 2 01 1994: 18.Google Scholar
*A94: 3.Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper, illus. by Greenaway, Kate. New York: Derrydale P, 1993.47 pp.Google Scholar
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B. Reference and Bibliographical Works and Exhibitions

B94: 1.Cohen, Edward H., ed. “Victorian Bibliography for 1994.” VS 37.4 (Summer 1994): 729–30.Google Scholar
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C. Biography, Criticism, and Miscellaneous

C94: 1.Adams, Robert. “Browning's Bishop and St Praxed's ‘Work’.” Notes and Queries n.s. 41.3 (09 1994): 354–56. ¶ Provides information about Saint Praxed, who gave Christian burial to martyrs, an ironic comment on the Bishop, “a compromised worldling.” According to legend, a well of martyrs' blood is in the church, Santa Prassede. RB would have seen Muratori's painting of the scene or read about it in Murray's guidebooks.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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C94: 4.Barolini, Helen. “The Italian Side of Emily Dickinson.” Virginia Quarterly Review 70.3 (Summer 1994): 461–79. ¶ lncludes EBB among the writers on Italy whom Dickinson read, and draws connections between Dickinson's poems and commentary on things Italian and EBB's Aurora Leigh, EBB's association with Margaret Fuller in Italy, and Germaine de Staël's Corinne or Italy, a novel which informs much of Aurora Leigh.Google Scholar
C94: 5.Barrett, Dorothea. “Linguaggio e desiderio in ‘Aurora Leigh’.” Partilora, Dimensione “D” 21–32. ¶ Notes that EBB distinguishes between the writer and her work, especially with regard to the love between her and her husband, about which we know very little. The classical epic — “masculine, affirmative, assertive and authoritative” — may be contrasted with the “private voice” of Aurora Leigh. The language is erotic but its eroticism embraces all humanity. The language of the poem is in itself an object of desire and anticipates the work of Freud, Woolf, and modern feminist psychologists.Google Scholar
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C94: 7.Basham, Diana. “Aurora Leigh and the Language of the Mother.” The Trial of Woman: Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and Society. New York: New York UP, 1992. 136–47. ¶ Relates nineteenth-century women's interest in the Spiritualist movement with their entry into public life as a “kind of fantasy context.” The civic and legal questions raised as the “Woman Question” had a “mirror enactment” earlier in Spiritualism (135). The declared aim of Aurora Leigh “was to prove the special responsibility [of] women's writing.” Through Spiritualism EBB explored “the metaphoric complexities surrounding the Woman Question”; she did so without underestimating, simplifying, or sentimentalizing “the contradictions implicit in the mother construct.”CrossRefGoogle Scholar
C94: 8.Black, Barbara J. “‘The works on the wall must take their chance’: A Poetics of Acquisition.” VP 32.1 (Spring 1994): 1–20. ¶ Observes that with the proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century, museum-poems — including RB's painter monologues and “A Likeness” — explore the “survival of art in the marketplace.” Ekphrastic principles do not pertain, but rather political and economic questions of art acquisition.Google Scholar
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C94: 24.Fraser, Hilary. The Victorians and Renaissance Italy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. 308 pp. passim. ¶ Explores the modern idea of the Renaissance, citing EBB's revision of the male poetic tradition in Sonnets from the Portuguese and her application of political history and literary tradition to current events in Italy in Casa Guidi Windows. RB's poems on Renaissance themes and artists are derived from both Renaissance sources and the “cultural legacy” he was surrounded by in Italy, establishing “the realism of the art-work” as a “prerequisite to a metaphorical interpretation.” He viewed his own age and that of Renaissance Italy “as both reviver of the culture of ancient civilizations and fountainhead of modern art and letters.”Google Scholar
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C94: 38.Loucks, James F. “The Ring and the Book and The Land and the Book.” American Notes and Queries 7.3 (07 1994): 143–46.1 ¶ Suggests that RB ordered the terms in the title of The Ring and the Book to echo the best selling The Land and the Book by clergyman William McClure Thomson, boosting sales in America. The order would also not echo Thackeray's fairy story The Rose and the Ring.Google Scholar
C94: 39.Lucas, John. “A Note on Browning's ‘A Toccata of Galuppi's’.” Critical Survey 2.1 (1990): 42–48. ¶ Explicates RB's music poem in terms of meter, historical allusion, technical language, and philosophy.Google Scholar
C94: 40.McSweeney, Kerry. “Hardy's Poetic Antecedents.” Blank and Louis 91–111. ¶ Argues that Thomas Hardy was “the last major English poet of the nineteenth century” because he reflects the influence of Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, RB, and Swinburne. He resisted the optimism of the “Prologue” to Asolando but remained a reader of RB's poems to the end of his life, most notably By the Fireside, which he cited in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure.Google Scholar
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