LEADER 05063nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910961262803321 005 20251116145438.0 010 $a0-8262-6268-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008456 035 $a(OCoLC)298009610 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10048234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226590 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10248758 035 $a(PQKB)11746395 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048234 035 $a(OCoLC)56480038 035 $a(BIP)11494392 035 $a(BIP)7834652 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008456 100 $a20020919d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"We are three sisters" $eself and family in the writing of the Brontes /$fDrew Lamonica 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8262-1436-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index. 327 $aFamily as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette. 330 $aWhile biographers have widely acknowledged the importance of family relationships to Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte? and to their writing processes, literary critics have yet to give extensive consideration to the family as a subject of the writing itself. In "We Are Three Sisters," Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Bronte?s' fictions of personal development, exploring the ways in which their writings recognize the family as a defining community for selfhood. Drawing on extensive primary sources, including works by Sarah Ellis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Richelieu Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell, Lamonica examines the dialogic relationship between the Bronte?s' novels and a mid-Victorian domestic ideology that held the family to be the principal nurturer of subjectivity. Using a sociohistorical framework, "We Are Three Sisters" shows that the Bronte?s' novels display a heightened awareness of contemporary female experience and the complex problems of securing a valued sense of selfhood not wholly dependent on family ties. The opening chapters discuss the mid-Victorian "culture of the family," in which the Bronte?s emerged as voices exploring the adequacy of the family as the site for personal, and particularly female, development. These chapters also introduce the Bronte?s' early collaborative writings, showing that the sisters' shared interest in the family's formative role arose from their own experience as a family of authors. Lamonica also examines the seldom-recognized influences of Patrick and Branwell Bronte? on the development of the sisters' writing. Of the numerous studies on the Bronte?s, comparatively few consider all seven novels, and no previous study has undertaken to examine the Bronte?s' writing in the context of mid-Victorian ideas regarding the family-its relationships, roles, and responsibilities. Lamonica explores in detail the various constructions of family in the sisters' novels, concluding that the Bronte?s were attuned to complexities; they were not polemical writers with fixed feminist agendas. The Bronte?s disputed the promotion of the family as the exclusive site for female development, morality, and fulfillment, without ever explicitly denying the possibility of domestic contentment. In doing so, the Bronte?s continue to challenge our readings and our understanding of them as mid-Victorian women. "We Are Three Sisters" is an important addition to the study of these fascinating women and their novels. 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$zYorkshire$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAutobiography in literature 606 $aSisters in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 607 $aYorkshire (England)$xIn literature 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAutobiography in literature. 615 0$aSisters in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a823/.809 700 $aLamonica$b Drew$f1973-$01861646 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961262803321 996 $a"We are three sisters"$94467791 997 $aUNINA