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Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History

Author : Heather Glen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515159
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History written by Heather Glen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating study of Charlotte Brontë's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways in which Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, it offers a powerful argument for the "literary" as a distinctive mode of intelligence, and reveals a Charlotte Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. The study will be of interest not only to students of Victorian literature and society, but also to those literary critics and theorists who are beginning to reconsider the nature of the aesthetic and its relation to ideology.

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

Author : John Pfordresher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248887
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece written by John Pfordresher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising hidden history behind Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Why did Charlotte Brontë go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Brontë’s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it. Few people know how quickly Brontë composed Jane Eyre. Nor do many know that she wrote it during a devastating and anxious period in her life. Thwarted in her passionate, secret, and forbidden love for a married man, she found herself living in a home suddenly imperiled by the fact that her father, a minister, the sole support of the family, was on the brink of blindness. After his hasty operation, as she nursed him in an isolated apartment kept dark to help him heal his eyes, Brontë began writing Jane Eyre, an invigorating romance that, despite her own fears and sorrows, gives voice to a powerfully rebellious and ultimately optimistic woman’s spirit. The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontë knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels. By aligning his insights into Brontë’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontë’s brilliant, immersive genius.

Charlotte Brontë

Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962091
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë written by Claire Harman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman’s biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte’s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte’s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girls’ school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as “nothing special to him at all.” She channeled her torment into her first attempts at a novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention. Charlotte helped power her sisters’ work to publication, too. But Emily’s Wuthering Heights was eclipsed by Jane Eyre, which set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain and insignificant heroine? Charlotte Brontë’s blazingly intelligent women brimming with hidden passions would transform English literature. And she savored her literary success even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed. Charlotte Brontë is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotte’s lifelong struggle to claim love and art for herself, Harman’s richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of Brontë’s own work.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Charlotte Brontë written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre

Author : Glynnis Fawkes
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
ISBN 13 : 1368051561
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre written by Glynnis Fawkes and published by Little, Brown Ink. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers of all ages and revered as a masterwork of literary prowess. But what of the famous writer herself? Originally published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, Jane Eyre was born out of a magnificent, vivid imagination, a deep cultivation of skill, and immense personal hardship and tragedy. Charlotte, like her sisters Emily and Anne, was passionate about her work. She sought to cast an empathetic lens on characters often ignored by popular literature of the time, questioning societal assumptions with a sharp intellect and changing forever the landscape of western literature. With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre presents a stunning examination of a woman who battled against the odds to make her voice heard.

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel

Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108837166
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel written by Timothy Gao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.

Dark Quartet

Author : Lynne Reid Banks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140083057
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Dark Quartet written by Lynne Reid Banks and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De levensgeschiedenissen van de Egelse schrijfster Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848), Anne Brontë (1820-1849) en hun broer Branwell (1817-1848).

Charlotte Brontë

Author : Patsy Stoneman
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746308566
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë written by Patsy Stoneman and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patsy Stoneman offers a comprehensive analysis of all Charlotte Brontë's novels, with a focus on power-relations in class and gender.

Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World

Author : Justine Pizzo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030348555
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World written by Justine Pizzo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history, literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volume addresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels (The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and “Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences that shaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and drawing), Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World forges new connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’s work.

The Brontës in Context

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761867
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Brontës in Context written by Marianne Thormählen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.

A Companion to the Brontës

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118405498
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Brontës written by Diane Long Hoeveler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

"The Eyes of Your Heart"

Author : Alison Searle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606086022
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book "The Eyes of Your Heart" written by Alison Searle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a theory of imagining biblically that explores the contributions scripture can make to a new way of thinking about creativity, reading, interpretation, and criticism. The methodology employed in order to demonstrate this thesis consists of a theoretical exploration of current theological understandings of the imagination and their implications within the fields of literary studies. The biblical texts locates the function generally defined as imagination in the heart (the eyes of your heart, Ephesians 1:18). This book assesses what the biblical text as a literary and religious document contributes to the concept of imagination. Due to the eclectic nature of the individual books that comprise the scriptural canon, the text is considered primarily in terms of its overarching metanarrative, language, genres, and theological propositions. Tracing the various trajectories the biblical text opens up and the ways in which they intersect with and modify post-Romantic assumptions about the imagination reconfigures traditional definitions of this concept. A Calvinistic, evangelical hermeneutic is deployed to establish a theoretical concept of what it means to imagine biblically. This is further substantiated by a comparative study of authors ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries (John Bunyan, Samuel Rutherford, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and C. S. Lewis). Each author's chapter incorporates a close reading of a key text which concretely examines various trajectories of imagining biblically, including creativity, faith, morals, narrative, Romanticism, and eschatology. The conclusion returns to the biblical text and draws these elements together, with a definition of the concept of imagining biblically and its implications for literary studies.

The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900

Author : Sarah Bilston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191556760
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 written by Sarah Bilston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siècle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's 'awakening' to disaffected consciousness. The book thus both historicises the evolution and mythic appeal of the female adolescent and works to receive suggestive exchanges between apparently diverse female literary traditions.

Something about Arthur

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something about Arthur written by Charlotte Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brontë Myth

Author : Lucasta Miller
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780224037457
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Brontë Myth written by Lucasta Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has as its subject the manipulation of a reputation." "Its starting point is Charlotte Bronte's attempt to manage her own and her sisters' public image in the face of Victorian prejudice against their passionate novels. Their first biographer, Mrs. Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one of the great legends of the nineteenth century, a dramatic tale of three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor. Lucasta Miller reveals where this image came from and how it took such a hold on the popular imagination." "Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing."

Charlotte Brontë

Author : Lyndall Gordon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393314489
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë written by Lyndall Gordon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The] contradictions in Bronte] s] life are not only fully chronicled by Lyndall Gordon s splendid new biography, but also gracefully explicated to give the reader a vivid and emotionally detailed portrait of the novelist and her work. . . . Gordon] chooses to use her imaginative sympathies honed to precision with earlier biographies of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot to delineate her subject s rich interior life. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times"

LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

Author : Janice M. Alberghene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135593256
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION written by Janice M. Alberghene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response, and the collection presents 11 new essays, two new bibliographies, and reprints of six classic essays. The contributors examine the history of illustrating Little Women; Alcott's use of domestic architecture as codes of female self-expression; the tradition of utopian writing by women; relationship to works by British and African American writers; recent thinking about feminist pedagogy; the significance of the novel for women writers, and its implications from the vantage points of middle-aged scholar, parent, and resisting male reader.