Charlotte Brontë / Diane Long Hoeveler and Lisa Jadwin.

Author
Hoeveler, Diane Long [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Twayne Publishers, 1997.
Description
xii, 189 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 541. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "In Charlotte Bronte, Diane Long Hoeveler and Lisa Jadwin offer a reasoned critical biography of the writer and a comprehensive survey of all Bronte's works, including newly transcribed juvenilia. Organizing their material chronologically, the authors present an informed perspective on the complex history of Bronte criticism and biography, with an emphasis on the most recent feminist, psychoanalytic, and new historicist viewpoints."--BOOK JACKET. "An introductory chapter traces the substantial body of biographical works devoted to Charlotte Bronte, placing these in the context of their times and explicating the factors influencing biographers, such as prevailing social attitudes toward women and biographers' access to reliable primary sources. Subsequent chapters examine the juvenilia, the four novels, and the poetry and letters, interspersing each discussion with useful biographical details and valuable critical observations. Unlike other such studies, the volume combines rather than seperates biographical and critical components, and emphasizes the richness and complexity of Bronte's works rather than imposing a single way of approaching them."--BOOK JACKET. "Thoroughly up to date and written with grace and elan, Charlotte Bronte provides an insightful resource for courses in Victorian literature, women's writing, and English literature; general readers, too, will find it appealing."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-182) and index.
    Contents
    • "Fact is often stranger than fiction": biographers on Charlotte Brontë
    • "The world below": Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia
    • "Low at my master's knee I bent": The professor
    • I know no medium": Jane Eyre
    • "How to endure without a sob": Shirley
    • "This heretic narrative": Villette
    • "All turned up in tumult": the poetry and letters.
    ISBN
    • 0805745130 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780805745139 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    97007226
    OCLC
    36430680
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