"The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X" contains critical editions of "Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society." Both published in 1871, these two long poems take up a pair of subjects that held enduring fascination for Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: classical Greek literature and the career of Napoleon III, Emperor of France. "Balaustion's Adventure," which the poet characterized as merely a May-month amusement, was surprisingly successful with the reading public that paid more attention to Browning...

In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire. He had never been more popular, and the founding of the BrowningSociety in 1881 expanded both his audience and his sense of his place in English letters.The first title in Volume XV is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking his subjects from classical history, colonial India, Arabian legend, medieval sorcery, Jewish folk tales, and Greek myth,...

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning s known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning s life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.?

With this seventeenth and final volume, "The Complete Works of Robert Browning "concludes the major phase of a great scholarly project: the accurate preservation and transmission of the poet s works for future generations of readers. Volume XVII begins with Browning s last collection of poems,...

Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the text would read-author, compositor, printer's reader, or publisher? In a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley explores the interactions between individual authors and their publishers and printers. He takes the reader through each stage of a work's development,...

Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the text would read-author, compositor, printer's reader, or publisher? In a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley explores the interactions between individual authors and their publishers and printers. He takes the reader through each stage of a work's development,...