Aurora Leigh

1. Genre

1.1. Epic

1.1.1. Lyric

1.1.1.1. Novel

2. Gender

2.1. Gender and Poetry

2.1.1. Fallen Woman

2.1.1.1. Femininity

2.1.1.1.1. Women & Education

3. Romanticism

3.1. Wordsworth's The Prelude

3.1.1. Childhood

4. Work

4.1. Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus

4.1.1. Manual labour/Intellectual labour

4.1.1.1. Women's work

5. Society

5.1. Harmony/Fracture

5.1.1. Christian Socialism

5.1.1.1. Class relationships

6. Religion

6.1. Vision of the New Jerusalem

6.1.1. God's love

6.1.1.1. Isolation and community

6.1.1.1.1. Self and Other

7. Love

7.1. Self and Other

7.1.1. Freedom and constraint

7.1.1.1. Marriage

7.1.1.1.1. The Marriage Market

8. Relationships between women

8.1. Support and betrayal

8.1.1. Female friendships

8.1.1.1. Mothers and maternity

8.1.1.1.1. Sisterhood

9. Art and Poetry

9.1. Relation to Society

9.1.1. Art & Idealism

9.1.1.1. For the masses or for the individual?

10. Aurora's literary career

10.1. Imitation

10.1.1. The literary marketplace

10.1.1.1. Fame

10.1.1.1.1. Romney on Aurora's poetry

11. Nationality

11.1. Italy

11.1.1. Feelings

11.1.1.1. Nature

12. Bildungsroman

12.1. Narrator

12.1.1. Mistakes

12.1.1.1. Dialogism or Monologism?

12.1.1.1.1. Kunstlerroman