Synopses & Reviews
This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Brontë's writings engage with a whole range of issues in their time. Through a series of new readings of ostensibly well-known texts, Heather Glen reveals a Charlotte Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be.
Review
"This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice
"Sure to be influential in Brontë studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Synopsis
This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Bronte's writings engage with a whole range of issues in their time.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The mighty phantasm
2. The Professor
3. The shape of Jane Eyre
4. Jane Eyre and history (1)
5. Jane Eyre and history (2)
6. Shirley
7. Villette and history (1)
8. Villette and history (2)
Epilogue
Bibliography