| Author | : Marianne Thormählen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2012-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521761867 |
Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.
| Author | : Patricia Ingham |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2014-06-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317881621 |
The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.
| Author | : Marianne Thormählen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 10 |
| Release | : 2007-06-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139463691 |
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.
| Author | : Heather Glen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2002-12-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521779715 |
The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters' achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood 'plays' they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës' enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.
| Author | : Patricia Ingham |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-06-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131788163X |
The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.
| Author | : Ann Dinsdale |
| Publisher | : Frances Lincoln |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-05-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780711233980 |
The three Brontë sisters – Anne, Charlotte and Emily – moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there, on the edge of the dramatic landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, that they produced some of the most memorable, influential and best-loved novels in the English language. Ann Dinsdale paints a detailed picture of everyday life at Haworth in the 1840s, recounting the Brontë family history and describing the local village and surrounding countryside. She goes on to consider the Brontës' poetry and novels in the context of their socio-historic background. This book provides fascinating insight into the lives of the authors of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and will be a must for both literature students and Brontë admirers. It is illustrated with numerous rarely seen images from the Haworth archives, including drawings by Charlotte and Emily, together with evocative pictures by local photographer Simon Warner.
| Author | : Beth Torgerson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2005-08-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1403980187 |
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives. An in-depth analysis of the history of nineteenth-century medicine provides the necessary cultural context to understand these representations, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness, and the body were understood in Victorian England. Together, medical anthropology and the history of medicine offer a useful lens with which to understand Victorian texts. Reading the Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework and historical background to make such a literary analysis of the Brontë novels possible, while exploring how these representations of disease and illness work within a larger cultural framework.
| Author | : Lucasta Miller |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Haworth (England) |
| ISBN | : 9780224037457 |
"This book has as its subject the manipulation of a reputation." "Its starting point is Charlotte Bronte's attempt to manage her own and her sisters' public image in the face of Victorian prejudice against their passionate novels. Their first biographer, Mrs. Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one of the great legends of the nineteenth century, a dramatic tale of three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor. Lucasta Miller reveals where this image came from and how it took such a hold on the popular imagination." "Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing."
| Author | : Deborah Lutz |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2015-05-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0393246736 |
"Yields up all sorts of fascinating new angles on the famous siblings…Illuminating." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air In this unique and lovingly detailed biography, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the fascinating lives of the Brontës through the things they wore, stitched, and inscribed. Lutz immerses readers in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters’ days while moving us chronologically through their lives. From the miniature books they made as children to the walking sticks they carried on hikes on the moors, each possession opens a window onto the sisters’ world, their beloved fiction, and the Victorian era.
