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This book is about the intertextual relationships between the works of the Shelleys and the Brownings. While a lot of research has been done on the relationship between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning, virtually nothing has been said about the links between Mary Shelley and Robert Browning, and very little on the connections between the Shelleys and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rieko Suzuki seeks to address this blind spot by focusing on three areas in particular: firstly, the way that Browning’s later poems reflect back on and re-engage with Shelley’s work; secondly, Mary Shelley’s influence on Browning’s early poems; and thirdly, Shelley’s presence in and influence on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s writing. In mapping out the various ways in which texts relate to other texts, the book also identifies a number of important thematic threads that run throughout the work of all four writers. These include theories of history and historical consciousness, providing a further dimension to the question of ‘influence’. They also include ideas about exile, gender, liberal politics and cultural heritage, central to almost all the texts discussed here, as the Shelleys and the Brownings, in different ways and in varying contexts, tried to negotiate the possibility of a more tolerant and resilient social, political and cultural environment.

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'Rieko Suzuki has produced an intellectually engaging study which enhances our understanding of the literary connections and textual dialogues between the writings of the Shelleys and the Brownings, duly revitalizing our ideas of influence and intellectual transfer.' - Maria Schoina, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Rieko Suzuki's stimulating sequence of paired readings allow us to reconsider all four writers from perspectives both old and new. Jane Stabler, Review 19

'Rieko Suzuki has produced an intellectually engaging study which enhances our understanding of the literary connections and textual dialogues between the writings of the Shelleys and the Brownings, duly revitalizing our ideas of influence and intellectual transfer.' - Maria Schoina, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ‘Rieko Suzuki's stimulating sequence of paired readings allow us to reconsider all four writers from perspectives both old and new.’ Jane Stabler, Review 19 ‘I would like to celebrate the fact that a book reconsidering the question of influence from Romanticism to Victorianism underscored by the notion of “coterie” should appear in the same year as the bicentenary of Percy Shelley's death.’ Naomichi Tashiro, Essays in English Romanticism

'Rieko Suzuki has produced an intellectually engaging study which enhances our understanding of the literary connections and textual dialogues between the writings of the Shelleys and the Brownings, duly revitalizing our ideas of influence and intellectual transfer.' - Maria Schoina, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Rieko Suzuki is Associate Professor at Waseda University.

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