VOL. 58, BOOK 1, PART B, 2020 Full text (En)
Author: Yana Rowland
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
This paper focuses on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s juvenile cautionary prose-fiction tales in the period 1814 – 1818: Sebastian or the Lost Child, The Way to Humble Pride, Disobedience, Julia or Virtue, and Charles de Grandville. Border-crossing refers to the hardships of learning through experience in the process of individuation. A context of juvenile writing in England (late 18th – early 19th centuries) is suggested. Another purpose of the current study is to examine a child’s frontier movement in view of the literary act as self-exegesis.
Key words: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, juvenilia, cautionary tales, border crossing, identity, ex-centricity
