Simon Avery
Biographic Data
| ID | 4212939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Avery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Avery |
| SIGNATURE | AVERY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fame, Embodiment and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry
This article examines the ways in which three women poets of the long nineteenth-century -Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Emily Bront (1818-1848) and Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) -represent fame in their work in terms of a tense sexualised dynamic of attraction and repulsion, variously modelled as femme-fatale-like seduction, repressed lust and the activity in, and consequences of, what Mew terms the "tossed bed" ("Fame", l. 19).The focusing…
War at t’ Parsonage
In 2015, the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth curated an important exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo and the Brontë family's engagement with its politics and legacies.Bringing together military-orientated books that were owned by the family (such as Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon), drawings and watercolour paintings by the children (such as Branwell's disturbing depiction of conflict simply entitled Terror), a…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this study, Simon Avery considers a range of her poems, drawn from across her career, in order to examine the concern with the search for a meaningful home which underpins much of her writing. In a series of interrelated chapters of Barrett Browning's religious poetry, love poetry, politica…
Piety, Poetry, Passion
Journal Article PIETY, POETRY, PASSION: CONTEXTS FOR CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Get access Simon Avery Simon Avery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1995, Pages 244–245, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/40.1.244 Published: 01 October 1995
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Piety, Poetry, Passion
Journal Article PIETY, POETRY, PASSION: CONTEXTS FOR CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Get access Simon Avery Simon Avery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1995, Pages 244–245, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/40.1.244 Published: 01 October 1995
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this study, Simon Avery considers a range of her poems, drawn from across her career, in order to examine the concern with the search for a meaningful home which underpins much of her writing. In a series of interrelated chapters of Barrett Browning's religious poetry, love poetry, politica…
War at t’ Parsonage
In 2015, the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth curated an important exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo and the Brontë family's engagement with its politics and legacies.Bringing together military-orientated books that were owned by the family (such as Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon), drawings and watercolour paintings by the children (such as Branwell's disturbing depiction of conflict simply entitled Terror), a…
Fame, Embodiment and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry
This article examines the ways in which three women poets of the long nineteenth-century -Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Emily Bront (1818-1848) and Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) -represent fame in their work in terms of a tense sexualised dynamic of attraction and repulsion, variously modelled as femme-fatale-like seduction, repressed lust and the activity in, and consequences of, what Mew terms the "tossed bed" ("Fame", l. 19).The focusing…
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