The Brontës in context / edited by Marianne Thormählen.

"Very few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontë family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them. The forty-two new essays in this book tel...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Thormählen, Marianne, 1949-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:	Literature in context.
Subjects:	Brontë family. Brontë family 1800-1899 Authors, English > 19th century > Biography. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Authors, English English literature Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Biographies.
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Table of Contents:

Haworth in the time of the Brontës / Michael Baumber
Domestic life at Haworth Parsonage / Ann DInsdale
Locations in northern England associated with the Brontë's lives and works / Ann Dinsdale
The father of the Brontës / Dudley Green
A mother and her substitutes: Maria Brontë (née Branwell), Elizabeth Branwell and Margaret Wooler / Bob Duckett
Patrick Branwell Brontë / Victor A. Neufeldt
Charlotte Brontë / Dinah Birch
Emily Brontë / Lyn Pykett
Anne Brontë / Maria Frawley
Friends, servants and a husband / Stephen Whitehead
The Brontë's sibling bonds / Drew Lamonica Arms
Juvenilia / Christine Alexander
The Brussels experience / Sue Lonoff
The Brontë correspondence / Margaret Smith
Portraits of the Brontës / Jane Sellars
The poetry of the Brontës / Janet Gezari
Literary influences on the Brontës / Sara J. Lodge
The Brontë's way into print / Linda H. Peterson
Reading the Brontës : Their first audiences / Stephen Colclough
Brontë biography : a survey of a genre / Tom Winnifrith
Mid-nineteenth-century critical responses to the Brontës / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
Brontë scholarship and criticism, 1920-1970 / Herbert Rosengarten
Brontë scholarship and criticism, c. 1970-2000 / Sara J. Lodge
Current trends in Brontë criticism and scholarship / Alexandra Lewis
Adaptations, prequels, sequels, translations / Patsy Stoneman
Religion / David Jasper
The philosophical-intellectual context / Stephen Prickett
Education / Dinah Birch
Art and music / Cristine Alexander
Natural history / Barbara T. Gates
Politics / Simon Avery
Newspapers and magazines / Joanne Shattock
Agriculture and industry / Marianne Thormählen with Steven Wood
Transport and travel / Edward Chitham
Law / Ian Ward
Class / Elizabeth Langland
Careers for middle-class women / Elizabeth Langland
Marriage and family life / Marianne Thormählen
Dress / Birgitta Berflund
Sexuality / Jill L. Matus
Physical health / Janis McLarren Caldwell
Mental health / Janis McLarren Caldwell.

The Brontës in context / edited by Marianne Thormählen.

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