Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh was well accepted in Britain and America when published in 1856 during the Victorian era. An epic-like autobiographical novel-verse in its form, Aurora Leigh concentr...Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh was well accepted in Britain and America when published in 1856 during the Victorian era. An epic-like autobiographical novel-verse in its form, Aurora Leigh concentrates on a thirty-year-process of a talented poetess, Aurora, who is destined to write with dedication and commitment, for art, and for truth. With the approaches of New Criticism and Cultural Poetics study, this thesis will focus on the identity of Aurora Leigh as a poetess, who is neither a revolutionary feminist writer, nor an suffocating"angel in the house". As a pious daughter of God and a sympathetic descendant of Virgin Mary, Aurora performs an intelligent role in reconciling masculine power with feminine tenderness. Meanwhile, as a prophet preacher, Aurora embraces an epiphany through years of seeking and wandering and eventually constructs her own city of poetry in which an interwoven pattern of time and space conveys her ambition of being a female Homer.展开更多
文摘Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh was well accepted in Britain and America when published in 1856 during the Victorian era. An epic-like autobiographical novel-verse in its form, Aurora Leigh concentrates on a thirty-year-process of a talented poetess, Aurora, who is destined to write with dedication and commitment, for art, and for truth. With the approaches of New Criticism and Cultural Poetics study, this thesis will focus on the identity of Aurora Leigh as a poetess, who is neither a revolutionary feminist writer, nor an suffocating"angel in the house". As a pious daughter of God and a sympathetic descendant of Virgin Mary, Aurora performs an intelligent role in reconciling masculine power with feminine tenderness. Meanwhile, as a prophet preacher, Aurora embraces an epiphany through years of seeking and wandering and eventually constructs her own city of poetry in which an interwoven pattern of time and space conveys her ambition of being a female Homer.
