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Robert Browning

A Literary Life

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  • © 2001

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  1. Sarah Wood
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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
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  2. Introduction: ‘Browning in Westminster Abbey’

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 1-9

  3. Pauline and Mill

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 11-39

  4. Sordello and the Reviewers

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 40-51

  5. Drama, Macready and Dramatic Poetry

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 52-79

  6. Browning’s Now versus Carlyle’s Today

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 80-111

  7. Browning and Ruskin: Reading and Seeing

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 112-145

  8. Arnold and Translation: The Ring and the Book

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 146-177

  9. Publishing, Copyright and Authorship

    • Sarah Wood
    Pages 178-208

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 209-232
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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.

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

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