From Feeling to Narrative: Father in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Juvenile Poetic Dedications
From Feeling to Narrative: Father in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Juvenile Poetic Dedications

Author(s): Yana Rowland
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; juvenilia; father; selfhood; experience; consciousness; memory
Summary/Abstract: In the present paper I focus on the pivotal place father occupies in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s juvenile poetry. I explore the young poetess’ filial attachment in terms of her developing an identity, independence of mind and memory (in cultural terms), as evidenced by her earliest works, from 1814, through to 1826 (when her debut poetic volume, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems, was published). A modest look into the matter through Ricoeur and Bakhtin could help the scholar perceive how the poetess grows aware of selfhood as duty within a criteriology of writing as co-being.

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