This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press. Preface
vii
The Text of Aurora Leigh
1(326)
Frontispiece to the 1859 Revised Fourth Edition
2(1)
Title Page for the Revised Fourth Edition
3(2)
Aurora Leigh
5(322)
A Note on the Text
313(2)
Selected Textual Notes
315(12)
Backgrounds and Contexts
327(74)
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning on Aurora Leigh
329(20)
[The Declining Character of the Women of England and How It Might Be Rectified]
349(8)
Sarah Stickney Ellis
[Women's Rights and Duties]
357(4)
Catherine Napier
A Woman's Thoughts About Women
361(6)
Dinah Mulock
[A Trial Phalanx]
367(6)
Charles Fourier
Prostitution
373(14)
William Rathbone Greg
[Poetry and the Poetess]
387(4)
M. A. Stodart
[Elizabeth Barrett on Thomas Carlyle and the ``Prophet-Poet'']
391(10)
Elizabeth Barrett
Richard Hengist Horne
Criticism
401(157)
Contemporary Critical Reception
403(28)
The Athenaeum (November 22, 1856)
403(4)
H. F. Chorley
Westminster Review (January 1857)
407(2)
George Eliot
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (January 1857)
409(14)
W. E. Aytoun
North British Review (February 1857)
423(2)
Coventry Patmore
Westminster Review 68 (October 1857)
425(6)
John Nichol
Essays in Criticism
431(127)
[The Lyrical Philosophy of Aurora Leigh]
431(1)
Lilian Whiting
[The Negative Approach]
432(7)
Marjory A. Bald
``Aurora Leigh''
439(8)
Virginia Woolf
[Aurora's Mistakes]
447(2)
J. M. S. Tompkins
[The Myth of Corinne]
449(4)
Ellen Moers
[The Right to Write]
453(5)
Cora Kaplan
[Reconciling Love and Work]
458(5)
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
To ``bear my mother's name'': Kunstlerromane by Women Writers
463(3)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Gender and Genre Anxiety: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and H. D. as Epic Poets
466(7)
Susan Standford Friedman
` ``Come with me, sweetest sister'' ': The Poet's Last Quest
473(11)
Angela Leighton
Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy
484(10)
Deirdre David
Genre Subversion and Gender Inversion: The Princess and Aurora Leigh
494(12)
Marjorie Stone
[Structure and Narrative in Aurora Leigh]
506(2)
Helen M. Cooper
[The Idea of the Mother in Aurora Leigh]
508(6)
Dorothy Mermin
Gender and Narration in Aurora Leigh
514(6)
Alison Case
``The Embodied Muse'': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics
520(14)
Joyce Zanona
Aurora Leigh: An Epical Ars Poetica
534(6)
Holly A. Laird
[Men and Women: Poetry and Politics]
540(12)
Angela Leighton
[Allusion in the Verse-Novel: Experimental Bricolage]
552(6)
Margaret Reynolds
A Chronology
558(5)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Selected Bibliography
563
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