Abstract
Abstract In this chapter, we tease out the influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh on Robert Browning’s approach to temporality. We argue that Browning abandons “realist time” in favor of a temporality that more closely resembles the future anterior we have been exploring in this book. We are not claiming that such a temporality is a taxonomic feature of the verse-novel—and, as we saw in Chapters Seven and Eight, it often is not—but we wish to illustrate that there was a formal alternative in the period, however strange such a temporal structure may appear to us following the hegemonic success of the novel and our tendency to adopt the novel’s form of temporality in understanding our own lives. We explore these issues in Ring and the Book by examining Browning’s approach to questions of truth (especially representation) and questions of virtue (especially virtuous acts).
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