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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 February 2014
    03 January 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139583275
    9781108060387
    9781108059916
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583275
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.34kg, 152 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.2kg, 152 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
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    In 1847, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61) moved with her new husband to an apartment in Florence, in the wake of perhaps the most famous literary courtship of the nineteenth century. She soon took to calling their home the Casa Guidi. From there, she observed the events of the early Risorgimento. It was at this time that she produced some of her finest work, including Aurora Leigh and Casa Guidi Windows. An impressionistic and thoroughly atypical landmark in the Romantic canon, the latter was written in two parts, separated by several years. Beginning with the memory of a singing child and a lush description of Florence's beauty, the first part explores the air of optimism that permeates both the city and the narrator. By the second, disillusionment is rife: Florence has become the scene of demonstrations and broken political promises. This reissue of the 1851 first edition includes Barrett Browning's own introduction.

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