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Robert Browning: A Literary Life

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2001
ISBN
978-0-333-64338-9, 978-0-333-99261-6
DOI
10.1057/9780333992616
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1474134 bytes)
Series
Literary Lives
Edition
1
Pages
XVII, 239\249
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01

Description

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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