The Brontës And Religion

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426626

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The Brontës and Religion by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen shows how the Brontës' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Brontës. The analyses of the novels clarify the constant interplay of human and Divine love in the development of the novels. While demonstrating that the Brontës' fiction usually reflects the basic tenets of Evangelical Anglicanism, the book emphasises the characteristic spiritual freedom and audacity of the Brontës. Lucid and vigorously written, it will open up new perspectives for Brontë specialists and enthusiasts alike on a fundamental aspect of the novels greatly neglected in recent decades.

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139463690

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The Brontës and Education by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

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.

Author : Heather Glen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521779715

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The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës by Heather Glen Pdf

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.

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521761864

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The Brontës in Context by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.

Author : Marianne Thorm©Þhlen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Christian fiction, English
ISBN : 1107118166

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The Brontð̀ưs and Religion by Marianne Thorm©Þhlen Pdf

Author : Alexandra Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107154810

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The Brontës and the Idea of the Human by Alexandra Lewis Pdf

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118405499

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A Companion to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse Pdf

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

Author : Simon Marsden
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441153500

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Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination by Simon Marsden Pdf

Readers of Emily Brontë's poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves. Rejecting the idea that a single, coherent set of religious doctrines are to be found in Brontë's work, this book argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Brontë's work dramatises the experience of imaginative faith that is always contested by the presence of other voices, other worldviews. Her characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text.

Author : Henry Staten
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748694594

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Spirit Becomes Matter by Henry Staten Pdf

Explains how, under the influence of the new ''mental materialism'' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Bront1/2s and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology.

Author : Alisa Clapp-Itnyre,Julie Melnyk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443875899

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“Perplext in Faith” by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre,Julie Melnyk Pdf

In the last twenty years, there has been a growing recognition of the centrality of religious beliefs to an understanding of Victorian literature and society. This interdisciplinary collection makes a significant contribution to post-secularist scholarship on Victorian culture, reflecting the great diversity of religious beliefs and doubts in Victorian Britain, with essays on Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, and spiritualist topics. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives for an interdisciplinary audience, the essayists investigate religious belief using diverse historical and literary sources, including journalism, hymns, paintings, travel-writings, scientific papers, novels, and poetry. Essays in the volume examine topics including: • The relation between science and religion in the career of evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace (Thomas Prasch); • The continuing significance of the Bible in geopolitical discourse (Eric Reisenauer); • The role of children and children’s hymns in the missionary and temperance movements (Alisa Clapp-Itnyre); • The role of women in Christian and Jewish traditions (Julie Melnyk and Lindsay Dearinger); • The revival of Catholicism and Catholic culture and practices (Katherine Haldane Grenier and Michelle Meinhart); • The occult religious society Golden Dawn (Sharon Cogdill); • Faith in the writings of the Brontë sisters (Christine Colón), Charles Dickens (Jessica Hughes) and George Eliot (Robert Koepp).

Author : Sandra Hagan,Juliette Wells
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754657523

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The Brontës in the World of the Arts by Sandra Hagan,Juliette Wells Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' intense and varied relationship to the wider world of the arts. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.

Author : Jonathan Greenaway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351792

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Theology, Horror and Fiction by Jonathan Greenaway Pdf

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels across the 19th century – Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray, among others – Jonathan Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be drawn into the discourses of theology. Despite the differences in time, place and context that informed the writers of these stories, the Gothic novel is irreducibly fascinated with religious and theological ideas, and this angle has been often overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical theological awareness with interventions into contemporary theology, particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology and the arts, Jonathan Greenaway offers the beginnings of a modern theology of the Gothic.

Author : David W. Harrison
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781553698098

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The Brontes of Haworth by David W. Harrison Pdf

The Brontës of Haworth: Yorkshire's Literary Giants - Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations has been designed by a retired teacher of English as a general, overall guide and reference for use by highschool teachers, college and university professors, students and Brontë enthusiasts The functional layout of the book in three parts allows readers and researchers to obtain a quick, thumbnail sketch of the lives of each of the Brontës, each of their seven major adult works, and the various influence and inspirations which affected their short, tragic lives and led them into careers in writing. Each chapter in each section has been designed so that the brief background sketches of their lives and works can be read as an entity in itself, and from there, readers can choose which area they would like to pursue further through additional studies and research. The amount of research material on the Brontës is overwhelming, and it was the author's intention to briefly sort out various areas of potential interest for those just being introduced to this great family of English writers.

Author : Virginia Brackett
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780791097946

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Bloom's how to Write about the Brontës by Virginia Brackett Pdf

Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. This book offers suggestions on how to write a strong essay. It helps students develop their analytical writing skills.

Author : Patricia Ingham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192840356

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The Brontës (Authors in Context) by Patricia Ingham Pdf

The extraordinary creativity of the Bront--euml--; sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. Their novels, which so shocked their contemporaries, address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders. As well as examining these connections, Patricia Ingham also shows how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century. - ;The extraordinary creativity of the Bront--euml--; 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 they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around them, and their writing, from the juvenilia to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights , reflects the preoccupations of the age in which they lived. Their novels, which so shocked their contemporaries, address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders. As well as examining these connections, Patricia Ingham also shows how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century. The book includes a chronology of the Bront--euml--;s, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. - ;A dazzling, unobtrusive, true work of criticism - what a rarity that is - Craig Raine