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Subject(s)

• Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Brontë, Emily 1818-1848—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Brontë, Anne 1820-1849—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855—Books and reading [Browse]
• Brontë, Emily 1818-1848—Books and reading [Browse]
• Brontë, Anne 1820-1849—Books and reading [Browse]
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822—Influence [Browse]
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851—Influence [Browse]
• English literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed examination of the Shelleyan narrative accessible to the Brontës from their childhood to their final novels, this study argues for a fresh perspective on the Brontës' engagement with the Shelleys in both their juvenilia and later seven novels. In this respect, the book considers the Brontës as readers rather than exclusively as writers, viewing them as a product of the early nineteenth-century literary marketplace which maintained affinities to Romanticism. Reading, rewriting, and appropriating the textual Shelleys was a fundamental vein stemming the Brontës' writing from childhood, with Mary epitomising the model for what the sisters would eventually become: the female novelist." -- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 3031560515 (hardcover)
• 9783031560514 (hardcover)

OCLC

1420319410

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