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"The least 'Angelical' poem in the language": political economy, gender, and the heritage of Aurora Leigh.

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Dalley, Lana L.

Since its canonical recovery in the 1970s, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "novel-poem" Aurora Leigh has been a highly contested text in feminist literary criticism. (1) Critics have focused on EBB's tenuous position as a female poet in mid-Victorian England, her fruitless search for literary "grandmothers," and her work in the creation of a "new poetry." (2) More recently, critics like Tricia Lootens and Marjorie Stone have demonstrated how the mythologizing of EBB's life has eclipsed critical understanding of and engagement with the "novel-poem" since the late-nineteenth century. ...

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