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Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age.
The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar.
However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West Country to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her first decade of adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on art, love, God, the Woman Question, and society. This is the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century.
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Aurora Leigh
2008, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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0199552339 9780199552337
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Aurora Leigh (Oxford World's Classics)
July 31, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0192836536 9780192836533
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Aurora Leigh: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
1996, W.W. Norton
in English
- 1st ed.
0393962989 9780393962987
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Aurora Leigh: a poem : from the last London edition, corrected by the author
1979, Cassandra Editions
in English
- American ed.
091586486X 9780915864867
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvix-xli).
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"THE words 'cousin' and 'friend' are constantly recurring in this poem, the last pages of which have been finished under the hospitality of your roof, my own dearest cousin and friend-cousin and friend, in a sense of less equality and greater disinterestedness than Romney's."
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xi, 565 p. ; 22 cm
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