New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte

ISBN-13: 9780754601999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 248 str.

Julie Nash;Barbara A. Suess

Opis

This volume brings together the ideas of Bronte scholars to examine the many layers of Anne Bronte's work. The essays represent a diversity of theoretical and critical approaches, a factor which speaks to the richness of Bronte's texts. While many of the essays place Bronte's writings in the context of her life and make comparisons to the more famous works of her sisters, they also recognize that her novels can and should stand alone. They demonstrate that Bronte's narrative methods, her social criticism, and her religious convictions are individually worthy of study. Understood together, they reveal that the literary accomplishments of Anne Bronte make her an artist in her own right.

Recenzje

'Highly recommended for all academic libraries, lower-division undergraduate through faculty, and for the general readers.' Choice '...a book worth reading for those working on the Brontës.' Review of English Studies

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Contextualizing Anne Brontë’s Bible, Maria Frawley; the first chapter of Agnes Grey: an analysis of the sympathetic narrator, Larry H. Peer; Class, matriarchy and power: contextualizing the governess in Agnes Grey, James R. Simmons; ’The food of my life’: Agnes Grey at Wellwood House, Marilyn Sheridan Gardner; Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey: the feminist; ’I must stand alone’, Bettina L. Knapp; Narrative economies in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Garrett Stewart; ’I speak of those I do know’: witnessing as radical gesture in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Deborah Denenholz Morse; Anne Brontë’s method of social protest in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Lee A. Talley; Aspects of love in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Marianne Thormählen; Wildfell Hall as satire: Brontë’s domestic Vanity Fair, Andrés G. López; Helen’s diary and the method(ism) of character formation in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Melody J. Kemp; A matter of strong prejudice: Gilbert Markham’s self portrait, Andrea Westcott; Index.

O autorze

Barbara A. Suess and Julie Nash