Jaouad explores America's love for Robert Browning in new book

Browingmania: Americaâs Love for Robert Browning (2014, Cambria Press) is the title of a new book by HĂ©di Jaouad, professor of French.
According to the publisherâs web site, âIn the 1880s and 1890s, the Victorian poet Robert Browning was the âlionâ of the day in the United States, particularly in Rochester. Browningâs work was widely read and discussed. Even today, there are still many in America who consider themselves Browningites, and many of them belong to Browning clubs and societies.â
Jaouadâs book is âthe fruit of thorough and patient archival diggingâ and is âthe first study that examines Browningmania sychronically, through a local lens, as a way of understanding the phenomenon as whole.â
For more information, please visit the publisherâs .