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Aurora Leigh - A Poetic Novel of Art, Love, and Ambition
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617205989
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ambitious verse-novel tracing a woman's artistic and moral development in nineteenth-century England.
First published in 1856, Aurora Leigh blends epic scope with intimate psychological portraiture. Written in blank verse, the poem follows Aurora from childhood through her determination to become a poet, resisting conventional expectations of marriage and domestic limitation. Her intellectual formation, artistic struggle, and emotional entanglements unfold against the social tensions of Victorian England.
At once a Künstlerroman and a social critique, the work addresses class division, women's education, industrial poverty, and the vocation of the artist. Browning's heroine asserts the legitimacy of female creative ambition, making the poem a landmark in nineteenth-century literature and early feminist thought. Expansive in structure yet personal in voice, Aurora Leigh remains one of the most significant long poems of the Victorian era.
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