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Telling it slant: Promethean, Whig, and dissenting politics in Elizabeth Barrett's poetry of the 1830s.

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Avery, Simon

Since the 1970s and the start of the process of recovering Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the "servants' quarters" of the "mansion" of Literature where, in Virginia Woolf's famous description, the poet "bangs the crockery around and eats vast handfuls of peas on the point of a knife," (1) critics have reconsidered EBB and her works from a number of illuminating and persuasive critical positions. Indeed, we are now coming to recognize EBB as important for our understanding of areas as diverse as the experiences of the nineteenth-century woman writer, developments in Romantic and ...

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