Stefan Hawlin

Robert Browning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction to Browning includes biographical information, social and historical contexts, an overview of the range of his work, and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780415222310
• ISBN-10: 0415222311
• Artikelnr.: 21961899

Autorenporträt

Stefan Hawlin is a lecturer in English at the University of Buckingham. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Poetical Works of Robert Browning and the new editor of Browning Society Notes

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Abbreviations and referencing. Introduction Part I - LIFE AND CONTEXTS a. The Early Years: 1812-1832 - Childhood
Adolescent Rehabilitation b. The Young Writer: 1832-1846 - First Works
The Theatre: a dead end?
First Journeys to Italy
Courtship
Elizabeth Barrett
c. The Italian Years: 1846-1861 - 'Italy...my University'
Italy, Creativity, and Love d. Widowerhood and Old Age: 1861-1889 - Recognition at Last
The 'Saturated, Sane' Public Man
Interpretations. Further Reading. Part II - WORK a. Early Long Poems - Pauline
Paracelsus
Sordello
Conclusions. Further Readings b. The Dramatic Monologue. Further Readings c. Dramatic lyrics and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics - My Last Duchess
Pictor Ignotus
Porphyria's Lover
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, The Bishop Orders his Tomb
Count Gismond
The Lost Leader. Further Reading d. Men and Women and Dramatis Personae - Poems about Art
Poems of Religion
Poems of Love. Further Reading e. The Ring and the Book - Basic Considerations
Characters and Moral Formations
Pompilia and Caponsacchi. Further Reading f. The Late Poetry - Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
Ivan Ivanovitch
The Parleying with Gerard de Lairesse
Beatrice Signorini. Further Reading Part III - CRITICSM a. In and Out of the Canon: 1889-1979 b. Responses to the Early Long Poems - Pauline
paracelsus
Sordello c. The Early Monologues: A Variety of Approaches - Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister: 'Indeterminacy of Interpretation'
Towards Feminist Readings of Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess
Artist in the Marketplace-A Marxist View of Pictor Ignotus
Rescuing Andromeda: Ironic and Heroic Readings of Count Gimond d. The Middle-Period Work - A Toccata of Galuppi's vs Historical Readings
Historical Readings of Fra Lippo Lippi
Childe Roland: Psychoanalytic vs Historical Readings
The Heretic's Tragedy and the Grotesque e. The Ring and the Book: a Novel Poem. Further Reading Chronology. Bibliography. Index