The Brontë sisters / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848--Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849.

Authors, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 364 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Critical Insights

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This volume closely examines Charlotte's masterpiece Jane Eyre, Emily's influential Wuthering Heights, and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and the themes and influences of these works. Common themes are love, gender, class, and the intersections of all three, and this volume explores these topics and sets the work into biographical, historical, social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. Includes biographies, chronologies, citations, additional reading, index, and more.

Contents:

[PART 1] Critical contexts

"The air swarmed with Catherines": moving words and stereoscopic narrative in 'Wuthering Heights'

The myth of the Brontës

"It is only English girls who can thus be trusted to travel alone": class, travel, and work in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette'

Lucy Snowe in Belgium: work and colonialism in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette'

[PART 2] Critical readings

Charlotte Brontë's 'The professor': overbearing men and the gleam of female intellect

Emily Brontë: the man Branwell should have been

The experience of marriage in Anne Brontë's 'The tenant of Wildfell Hall'

'Jane Eyre,' by Charlotte Brontë: a survey of editorial introductions, 1950-1989

'Jane Eyre,' by Charlotte Brontë: a survey of editorial introductions, 1990-2020

'Wuthering Heights,' by Emily Brontë: a survey of editorial introductions, 1950-1989

'Wuthering Heights,' by Emily Brontë: a survey of editorial introductions, 1990-2020

Charlotte Brontë's "other" novels: a survey of editorial introductions, 1974-2008

'Agnes Grey' and 'The tenant of Wildfell Hall', by Anne Brontë: a survey of editorial introductions

The 1996 film of 'Jane Eyre': a survey of reviews

The 2009 film of 'Wuthering Heights': critical problems and possibilities

The 2011 film of 'Wuthering Heights': a survey of reviews.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed April 19, 2023).

ISBN:

9781637000748

163700074X

OCLC:

1293475935