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Barrett Browning - Aurora LeighElizabeth Barrett Browning Missing mothers and present papas: In Search of the Feminine in Aurora Leigh
I. Art or artist? Woman as object or subject?
A. Objectification of women as art
B. Simultaneous occupation of both roles I and me
II. Struggle between the masculine and the feminine
A. Subjection and subjugation of women
1. Unable to speak
2. Unable to write
3. Able to heal/nurture (angels)
4. Able to complement
B. Absence of literal and symbolic maternity in Aurora Leigh
C. Internalized sexism
1. Her aunt
2. Even Aurora herself (masculinity)
III. Hermaphrodism, Androgyny, or Feminism?
A. Merging or absence of the genders?
1. Aurora Leigh
2. Sonnets to George Sand
3. Sonnets from the Portuguese
B. Triumph of the Feminine?
1. Success
2. But how successful is she?
IV. Possible success in form: Decisions about genre
A. Mixing of genres (novel and poem)
B. Need for realism rather than romanticism
C. Sonnet form
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