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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(Guide to the year's work)
- Article from:
- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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This year, in EBB criticism, the politics of race, empire, and nation feature prominently, helping to counter the relative absence of "racial issues" in the work by the new wave of Victorian poetry scholars that Isobel Armstrong reflects on in her playful and probing article, "The Victorian Poetry Party" (VP 42 [2004]: 9-27). Interest in EBB's generic experimentations with the ballad, the dramatic monologue, the sonnet, and Victorian sage discourse also remains very strong. There is new work on her relationship to the changing canon of Victorian poetry; on Last Poems, her Italian contexts, and her relation to the figure of the poetess; on her sonnets "To George Sand" and ...