Literary Lives: A Literary Life

Wood, S.

Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key nineteenth-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-05-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333643372

DOI: 10.1057/9780333992616

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 232