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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Guide to the Year's Work).(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Last year in her review essay for this journal Dorothy Mermin welcomed the growing tendency to approach EBB from a range of different angles. While the focus on gender issues in her works is "perhaps unavoidable" and "certainly not undesirable," Mermin observed, "still, it would be nice to see critics thinking more of her more often as she would herself have liked, in a category other than that of a 'woman poet"' (p. 412). The material under review this year continues to expand the contexts within which EBB's works are approached. Class issues, poetic technique, religion, literary genealogies, and the politics of nation feature prominently in recent scholarship, although ...