Emily Bronte's poems are more frequently celebrated than read. Ironically, their very uniqueness and strangeness have made them less interesting to current feminist critics than other poetry written by Victorian women. This much-needed study reinstates Emily Bronte's poems at the heart of Romantic and Victorian concerns while at the same time underlining their enduring relevance for readers today. Last Things presents the poems as the achievement of a powerfully independent mind responding to its own inner experience of the world while seeking always an abrogation of human limits...
Emily Bronte's poems are more frequently celebrated than read. Ironically, their very uniqueness and strangeness have made them less interesting to cu...
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
In both her life and her art, Charlotte Bronte was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or underacknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our modern sense of the word: too quick to take offense or covertly aggressive. For some, Bronte's novels are deformed by hunger, rebellion, and rage; for others, they are deformed by the repression of these feelings. Both views ignore hunger, rebellion, and rage as powerful resources for Bronte's art rather than as personal...
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
In both her life and her art, Charlotte Bronte was alive to the difficult...
