ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dramatic Monologue, Lyric Poetry
3 Feb 2017
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British > writing about a woman in the usa. About slavery > trying to help the cause to abolish slavery. On her fathers side the family lived in jamaica > sugar plantation with slaves. Mothers side gained wealth with use of slaves. Believed there was a possibility she was part black. When poem was published, slavery in uk was abolished but not in america. Browning trying to encourage americans to abolish slavery. Key points: hated slavery and wanted it abolished, thought she was part black, her status is based on her family wealth gained from slavery. An aspect of the patriarchal, ninteenth-century doctrine of separate spheres, according to which a woman"s place was in the privacy of the home whereas a man"s place was in the wider, public world. (bedford) If home isn"t warm and happy it falls to being the woman"s fault (jury of her peers) Drawbacks to this idea > works against womanistic writers.
