The Poems of Browning: Volume Six
The Ring and the Book, Books 7-12
The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868-9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning's discovery of the 'old yellow book', a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognizably human beings. Fusing…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Karlin, Daniel (Hrsg.) / Phelan, Joseph (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-00-054573-9
- EAN: 9781000545739
- Produktnummer: 37493347
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 700 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
John Woolford is Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.Daniel Karlin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy.Joseph Phelan is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, UK.
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