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Article: The poison within: Robert Browning's "The Laboratory".(The Laboratory: Ancien Regime)
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- Victorian Newsletter
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Ward Hellstrom. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Robert Browning's "The Laboratory: Ancien Regime" is remarkable if for nothing else than that it is a widely known poem about which almost nothing interpretive has been written. (1) Apparently "The Laboratory" yields its meaning without exegesis--the explicator's worst nightmare. Two writers, however, do recently offer brief interpretive commentary, which invites critical response. Stefan Hawlin sees the speaker of the poem as "a female poisoner striking a blow at the duplicitous civilities of the ancien regime" (78), and Sarah Wood claims that "the laboratory acts like a hidden pocket of inventive resistance" against the Ancien Regime in particular and "tradition in ...
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