Charlotte Brontë : truculent spirit

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Charlotte Brontë : truculent spirit

by Valerie Grosvenor Myer

(Critical studies series)

Vision , Barnes & Noble, 1987

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Bibliography: p. 207ー221

Includes index

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This study charts Charlotte BrontI's critical fortunes over the last fifty years. It looks at the nature of her "romanticism" and her relationship with her readers. All the important writings about her since the 1930's, including feminist and Freudian treatments, are sifted and analyzed. Sharp, lively and original, with full scholarly apparatus, the book will put Charlotte BrontI in perspective for the general reader and will be invaluable to the student. Available for the first time in the U.S. Contents: Introduction; "Three Weird Sisters" and Socks for Mr. Nicholls; Mr. Rockingham and Monsieur Beck; "How very corse!"; "Mad Methodist Magazines"; Patrick BrontI's^R The Cottage in the Wood and the plot of Jane Eyre; "Hypochondria"; Charlotte and her Unconscious; Jane Eyre; Fairytale and the Imagination; Signs, Presentiments and Sympathies; Style, Suggestion and Emblem; Female Inner Space and Moral Madness; The Maiming of Edward Rochester; Shirley: a Feminist Document?; Villette; Bibliography; Index

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