A Preface to the Brontes (Preface Books)

by Felicia Gordon (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $4.09

  Summarizes the principal critical attitudes taken towards the Brontes in the 19th and 20th centuries and attempts to offer the student the tools to form their own critical perspectives.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.27

  Examining the Bronte sisters and their background, and providing a historical and political context for reading their work, this Preface summarizes the principal critical attitudes taken towards the Brontes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their principal influences and constraints are examined, together with the key texts - Jane Eyre Villette , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , Wuthering Heights and Emily Bronte's poetry. A concluding reference section offers brief biographies and a listing of original manuscripts and collections.