Stranded at the border: Browning, France, and the challenge of cosmopolitanism in Red Cotton Night-Cap Country.(Robert Browning)(essay)(Victorian poetry studies)(Critical essay)
From: Victorian Poetry
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Date: 12/22/2005
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Author: Keirstead, Christopher M.
Robert Browning's periods of residence and travel on the Continent coincided with some of the great political upheavals of the time, but the closest the poet may have ever come to being in any personal danger due to such unrest was in the late summer of 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. At the time, Browning and his sister Sarianna were enjoying a seaside holiday at St. Aubin-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast. His good friend Joseph Milsand lived in a cottage only "two steps off," ...
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