Browning and Conversation [Hardcover]

Andrew St George argues that Browning's world is essentially interactive, a dramatised process drawing speaker and reader together and that his poems both encourage and require the kind of engagement typically required of the Victorians in their conversations.By examining a series of specific poems in the context of Victorian conversation and society Andrew St George offers a new and exciting way of appreciating and enjoying some of Browning's best and most significant work.Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Victorian Conversation and Victorian Reading - Browning and Conversation - Conversation and Narrative: Red Cotton Night-Cap Country - The Inn Album - 1876-1883: Paconiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper etcetera - Imagined Parleyings and Imagined Conversations - Bibliography - Index