Author: Heather Glen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters' achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood 'plays' they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës' enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.
The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës
Author: Heather Glen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters' achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood 'plays' they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës' enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters' achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood 'plays' they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës' enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
Author: Deirdre David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
Author: David Herman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.
The Brontës in Context
Author: Marianne Thormählen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
Author: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
The Art of the Brontës
Author: Christine Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521438414
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521438414
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell.
At Home With the Brontes
Author: Ann Dinsdale
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624435
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in April 2013.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624435
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in April 2013.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Author: Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107159628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107159628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
The Brontës and Education
Author: Marianne Thormählen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139463691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139463691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.