The Poetry of Robert Browning
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies.

This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.
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The Poetry of Robert Browning
Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies.

This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.
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The Poetry of Robert Browning

The Poetry of Robert Browning

by Britta Martens
The Poetry of Robert Browning

The Poetry of Robert Browning

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Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies.

This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350310193
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/01/2016
Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 184
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Britta Martens is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK. She has published articles and essays on Browning's poetry and is the author of Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice (2011). She co-edited the Browning Bicentenary issue of Victorian Poetry (Winter 2012) and is the journal's former annual reviewer of Browning scholarship.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Changing Perspectives in Browning Criticism
1. Romanticism: Browning and Shelley
2. Romanticism: Debt and Defiance
3. The Dramatic Monologue: Form and the Reader
4. The Dramatic Monologue: Causes and Context
5. Aesthetics: Realism and the Grotesque
6. Love and Gender Relations
7. Historical and Geographical Distancing
Conclusion: Browning at 200 and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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‘As we would expect from such an outstanding scholar, Dr Martens has done a remarkable job in appraising some 180 years of literary responses to Browning. Elegantly organised and richly detailed, this clear and comprehensive guide provides an invaluable resource for the study of one of the most important of Victorian poets.’ – John Blades, former lecturer at the University of Leeds and the University of Durham, UK

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