ENGL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Diplopia, True Life, Aurora Leigh
1 Mar 2017
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K nstlerroman a type of bildungsroman, but it focuses specifically on the. Browning refer to her novel as a novel poem and as a verse novel . The subtitle of the book is a novel in verse . England has many learned women and yet were are the poetesses?i looked everywhere for grandmothers, and see none -browning. Try to establish a tradition of women poets, that she hasn"t found. At this time there were great women writers (austen) but there were less common in poetry. Poetry during this point like paradise lost, and rape of the lock, depended on a classical tradition: fluency of greek and latin text were needed, women largely excluded from such teachings, women disenfranchise from that education -gender imbalance. Poetry seen as genre that because it was depended on tradition were women writers were largely excluded. Novels seen as low in the hierarchy compare to novels.
