The Brontës (Authors in Context).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingham, Patricia.

Series:

Oxford World's Classics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The extraordinary creativity of the Brontë sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. Their novels, which so shocked their contemporaries, address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders. As well as examining these connections, Patricia Ingham also shows how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; A Chronology of the Brontës; Abbreviations; 1. The Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë; The Family Circle; Pupils and Teachers; The Wider World: Brussels; The Literary Arena: Triumph and Despair; The Solitary Life of a Literary Celebrity; Marriage and a New Family Circle; 2. The Fabric of Society; The Game of Politics 1815-1855; Social Class; The Nature and Roles of Women; Varieties of Religion; Madness and the Mind; The Empire and the Orient; 3. The Literary Context; Literary Resources; Angria and Gondal; Publishing, Publication, and Reviewing

Censorship and Public TasteThe Brontës on the Novel; 4. The Brontës' Novels and Social Class; Class Boundaries; Policing the Frontier: the Governess Problem; The Sufferings of the Governess; Class Conflict in Shirley; Social Mobility in Wuthering Heights; 5. Gender, Nationality, and Race in the Brontës' Novels; English Femininity and Domestic Life; Escaping Feminine Stereotypes; Eastern Feminity and Jane Eyre; Masculinity; 6. The Brontës and the Psyche: Mind and Body; Reading the Mind; The Secret Self; Gothic States of Mind; 7. Religion in the Brontës' Works; The Politics of Religion

Religion as EthicsWuthering Heights and Christianity; 8. Recontextualizing the Brontës; 1850-1900 Adaptations and Criticism; 1890-1930 Early Twentieth-Century Films and Criticism; 1930-1970 Films and Criticism; 1970-2000 Criticism, Films, Television, and Opera; Notes; Further Reading; Websites; Film and Television Adaptations of the Brontës' Novels; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-156060-X