A Preface to the Brontes

, by Gordon, Felicia

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ISBN: 9780582437630 | 0582437636
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Copyright: 8/1/2000

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Supplemental Materials

List of Illustrations

vii

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chronological table

(6)

Introduction

(8)

PART ONE: THE BRONTES AND THEIR BACKGROUND

(50)

A parsonage childhood

(11)

Patrick Bronte

(3)

School experience

(8)

The path to maturity

(17)

The choice of a profession

(1)

`A stalking ghost'

(4)

Brussels

(7)

Return to Haworth

(2)

Early Publications

(4)

The deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne

(8)

Charlotte's later novels and marriage

(13)

PART TWO: CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND

(70)

History and Politics

(7)

Religion

(13)

The Evangelical movement and the Established Church

(5)

The Oxford movement

(5)

Religious ideas in the novels

(3)

Reading and literary influences

(9)

The Gothic

(3)

Byron

(3)

The juvenilia

(14)

Origins

(3)

The Glass Town Saga

(2)

Angria

100

(5)

Gondal

105

(1)

Emily Bronte's Poems and the juvenilia

106

(3)

The Brontes and the visual arts

109

(10)

Thomas Bewick

109

(5)

John Martin

114

(5)

The condition of women question

119

(16)

Education and employment for women in the nineteenth century

119

(2)

Educational work

121

(4)

Authorship: constraints on female authors

125

(4)

Two feminist interpretations: Jane Eyre and Shirley

129

(6)

PART THREE: CRITICAL SURVEY

135

(74)

Jane Eyre (1847)

136

(20)

The orphan's quest

136

(1)

Structure

136

(10)

Religion and the supernatural

146

(3)

Point of view

149

(1)

What `kind' of a novel?

149

(3)

Prose extract and critical commentary

152

(4)

Villette (1853)

156

(19)

Narrative choices: Brussels transformed

156

(1)

Literary and artistic metaphors

156

(4)

Women character models

160

(1)

Pictorial models

161

(7)

Themes of disguise and concealment: the spy

168

(1)

Prose extract and critical commentary

169

(6)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

175

(7)

Structure

178

(1)

Characterization

178

(2)

Religion

180

(2)

Emily Bronte's poetry

182

(9)

Imagination

184

(7)

Wuthering Heights (1847)

191

(16)

Structure: time, narration and place

191

(6)

Love and death

197

(3)

Religion

200

(2)

Mysticism and nature

202

(1)

Prose extract, Cathy's vision, and critical commentary

202

(5)

Conclusion

207

(2)

PART FOUR: REFERENCE SECTION

209

(1)

Brief Biographies

210

(8)

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A Preface to the Brontes

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