The Brontës and religion / Marianne Thormählen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thormählen, Marianne, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Religion.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848--Religion.

Brontë, Emily.

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849--Religion.

Brontë, Anne.

Christianity and literature--England--History--19th century.

Christianity and literature.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Christian fiction, English--History and criticism.

Christian fiction, English.

Theology in literature.

Clergy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Brontës & Religion

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen shows how the Brontës' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Brontës. The analyses of the novels clarify the constant interplay of human and Divine love in the development of the novels. While demonstrating that the Brontës' fiction usually reflects the basic tenets of Evangelical Anglicanism, the book emphasises the characteristic spiritual freedom and audacity of the Brontës. Lucid and vigorously written, it will open up new perspectives for Brontë specialists and enthusiasts alike on a fundamental aspect of the novels greatly neglected in recent decades.

Contents:

I. Denominations. 1. A Christian home in early nineteenth-century England: Evangelicalism, Dissent and the Bronte family. 2. Charlotte Bronte and the Church of Rome. 3. An undenominational temper

II. Doctrines. 4. The Brontes in the theological landscape of their time. 5. God and his creation. 6. Faith and redemption. 7. This life and the next

III. Ethics. 8. Forgiveness and revenge. 9. The Christian life

IV. Clerics. 10. Clergymen in the Bronte novels. 11. The enigma of St. John Rivers.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11816-6

0-511-04874-2

0-511-00277-7

1-280-16210-4

0-511-11803-1

0-511-15003-2

0-511-48495-X

0-511-32458-8

OCLC:

437250279