Brontes

The Brontes

The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.

The Brontës and Their Background: Romance and Reality

Left behind because he is too young to go to school with his friends, a little boy invents games to play with birds, animals, the falling leaves, and his mother.

The Brontes