VOL. 62, BOOK 1, PART C, 2024, pp. 180 – 194 Full text (En)
Author: Yana Rowland
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
This paper follows the relationship between dog and man in Elizabeth Barrett’s love letters (Jan 1845 – Sept 1846) to her future husband, the Victorian poet Robert Browning. Elizabeth’s attachment to her pet, Flush, encouraged her to explore voice, sight, and motion as tools for identifying the interaction between diverse levels of life as underpinning authorial intentionality. Co-operating and competing, the human being and the non-human being became participants in a narrative whole founded on the sense of time that the presence of the Other ignited by way of questioning – in dialogue – the autonomy of subject and object.
Key words: Elizabeth Barrett, Flush, Other, dialogue, time, boundary
