A Preface to the Brontes by Felicia Gordon
Summarizes the principal critical attitudes taken towards the Brontes in the 19th and 20th centuries and attempts to offer the student the tools to form their own critical perspectives.
A Preface to the Brontes
A Preface to the Brontes
Summary
This critical introduction places the subjects in the political, social, economic, cultural and intellectual milieu of their age. The book contains a biographical and contextual section, an analysis of the novel and short biographical sketches of major historical figures mentioned in the text.
A Preface to the Brontes Summary
Table of Contents
PART 1 The Brontes and their background: a parsonage childhood 1. The path to maturity. 2. The deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne. 3. Charlotte's later novels and marriage. PART 2 Contextual background: history and politics 4. Religion - the Evangelical movement and the Established Church. 5. The Oxford Movement; reading and literary influences - the Gothic, Byron; the juvenilia - the Glass Town Saga, Angria, Gondal, Emily Bronte's poems and the juvenilia. 6. The Brontes and the visual arts - Thomas Bewick, John Martin. 7. The condition of women question - education and employment for women in the 19th century, educational work, authorship - constraints on female authors, two feminist interpretations - Jane Eyre and Shirley. PART 3 Critical survey 8. "Jane Eyre (1847), "Villette" (1853), "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848). 9. Emily Bronte's poetry. 10. "Wuthering Heights" (1847). PART 4 Reference section: brief biographies Original manuscripts and collections.
Additional information
GOR004520828
9780582354647
0582354641
A Preface to the Brontes by Felicia Gordon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
1989-04-24
240
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