Armstrong Browning Library & Museum Browning Day featuring Dr. Joseph Phelan (April 11)
The Armstrong Browning Library & Museum proudly presents
its annual Browning Day festivities featuring
"The Poetry of Real Life:
Robert Browning’s Red Cotton Night-Cap Country"
Joseph Phelan, Ph.D.
Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
The next volume of the Longman Poems of Robert Browning will include Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (1873), a poem based on the gruesome and rather sordid true story of the life and death of a wealthy French jeweler. Like The Ring and the Book, this poem makes extensive use of the records of a court case, and this talk examines some of the editorial issues presented by poems which rely heavily on documentary evidence of this kind, as well as the reasons for Browning’s fascination with the challenge of turning real-life stories of crime and misfortune into poetry.
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For more information contact the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
at (254) 710-4968 or abl_office@baylor.edu.
Previous Browning Day Presentations
Laura McNeal
"How Much Bacon is in this Vegan Sandwich? The Role of Invention in Historical Fiction"
Friday, April 12, 2024