This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Bront�'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 Bront� more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be.
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"This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice
"Sure to be influential in Bront� studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
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Heather Glen is a Senior Lecturer, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge.
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In 1829, at the age of 12, Charlotte Bronte began to write a 'history'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evangelical pedagogy, terrible handwriting, evangelical child, bourgeois prosperity, evangelical tracts, iron shroud, silent revolt, burning clime, youthful writings, sanitary reformers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė, The Professor, Glass Town, Great Exhibition, The Mighty Phantasm, Ellen Nussey, New York, Madame Beck, Crystal Palace, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lucy Snowe, Clarendon Press, Fraser's Magazine, Mary Barton, Patrick Brontė, Carus Wilson, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Martineau, Sarah Ellis, Victorian England, John Martin, Robert Moore, Duke of Wellington, George Smith New!
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In 1829, at the age of 12, Charlotte Bronte began to write a 'history'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evangelical pedagogy, terrible handwriting, evangelical child, bourgeois prosperity, evangelical tracts, iron shroud, silent revolt, burning clime, youthful writings, sanitary reformers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė, The Professor, Glass Town, Great Exhibition, The Mighty Phantasm, Ellen Nussey, New York, Madame Beck, Crystal Palace, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lucy Snowe, Clarendon Press, Fraser's Magazine, Mary Barton, Patrick Brontė, Carus Wilson, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Martineau, Sarah Ellis, Victorian England, John Martin, Robert Moore, Duke of Wellington, George Smith New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence by Raymond Williams on 4 pages
- Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle on 4 pages
- The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Second Edition (Nota Bene) by Professor Sandra M. Gilbert on page 20, page 34, and page 242
- Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle on page 46, page 256, and Back Matter
- Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (October Books) by Jonathan Crary on page 223, page 227, and page 246
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