Robert Browning

Abstract

Summarizes the articles in Volume 7, all of which deal with the relationship of Victorian writers and their publishers. Offers interesting contrasts among writers such as Browning, Tennyson, George Eliot, and Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). Provides similar insightful commentary on essays in Volume 8, which examine the idea of medievalism in Victorian England. Highly favorable comments about Tucker’s poststructuralist reading of Browning’s work, noting how the poet’s tendency to defer closure gives the poems, especially the dramatic monologues, a richness and complexity that makes them satisfying to readers. Finds Tucker a careful scholar and insightful reader.