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The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bailey, Suzanne. “Somatic Wisdom: Refiguring Bodies in The Ring and the Book.Victorian Studies 41, no. 4 (summer 1998): 567-91.

Investigates Browning's preoccupation with the body in The Ring and the Book.

Brewer, William D. “‘In Heaven We Have the Real and True and Sure’: The Influence of Dante's the Vita Nuova on Browning's The Ring and the Book.Studies in Browning and His Circle 16 (1988): 7-17.

Determines the influence of Dante's Vita Nuova on The Ring and the Book, arguing that “a Knowledge of Browning's debt to Dante is vital to a full appreciation of the Caponsacchi-Pompilia love story.”

Brown, Susan. “Pompilia: The Woman (in) Question.” Victorian Poetry 34, no. 1 (spring 1996): 15-37.

Considers The Ring and the Book in relation to the “Woman Question,” the Victorian debate over...

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