
The extraordinary creativity of the Bront sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination...

The extraordinary creativity of the Bront sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination...

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...

This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work and why they are amongst a set of texts on which the application of particular kinds of theory has concentrated. The essays are grouped under broad schools...