The Brontes / / edited and introduced by Patricia Ingham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786531303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2014, c2003
• ISBN: 1-317-88162-1; 1-138-16699-5; 1-315-84002-2; 1-317-88163-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Collana: Longman Critical Readers
• Altri autori (Persone): InghamPatricia
• Disciplina: 823/.709
• Soggetti: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; 1. Wuthering Heights; Notes; 2. A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress; Notes; 3. The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre; Notes; References; 4. Shirley; 'The Toad in the Block of Marble'; 'Capsized by the Patriarch Bull' (p. 245); 'The Famished and Furious Mass' (p. 344); Notes; 5. Villette: 'The Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye'; Notes; 6. Words on 'Great Vulgar Sheets': Writing and Social Resistance in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey (1847); NotesWorks Cited; 7. The Profession of the Author: Abstraction, Advertising, and Jane Eyre; I; II; Notes; Works Cited; 8. Gothic Desire in Charlotte Brontë's Villette; Notes; 9. The Other Case: Gender and Narration in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor; Notes; Works Cited; 10. Edward Rochester and the Margins of Masculinity in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea; Works Cited; 11. Gender and Layered Narrative in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Notes; Works Cited; 12. Siblings and Suitors in the Narrative Architecture of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; I; II; Notes; 13. Diaries and Displacement in Wuthering HeightsNotes; Further Reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.