This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Bronte'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 Bronte more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be.
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Essays by leading scholars explore the lives and tragic early deaths of the three Bronte sisters. They set two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century: Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, in the context of the other prose and poetry of the sisters, and trace the reputation of the Brontes through history. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading are included.

Essays by leading scholars explore the lives and tragic early deaths of the three Bronte sisters. They set two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century: Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, in the context of the other prose and poetry of the sisters, and trace the reputation of the Brontes through history. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading are included.

A challenging and persuasive interpretation of poems too often seen as part of a coherent and accepted literary tradition.

Work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalised in one account will be restored to prominence in another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of the present. This collection of essays takes as its starting point the wide-ranging work of Marilyn Butler on Romantic literature, and includes contributions by some of the most prominent scholars of Romanticism working today. The essays offer interesting perspectives on Maria Edgeworth,...

The last major work by Marilyn Butler, leading literary critic of the late twentieth century, on imaginative ideas of nationhood.