The Brontės (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Ingham, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192840355 ISBN 13: 9780192840356

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The extraordinary creativity of the Brontė 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, Ingham also shows how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century.
The BrontØs is a lively, accessible, and critically topical exploration of the novels of the three sisters, and includes a chronology of the Brontės, websites, illustrations, a comprehensive index, and suggestions for further reading.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Ingham is the author of The Brontės: A Critical Reader (Longmans, 2003) and Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel (MUP, 2000) and has edited editions of Hardy, Gaskell and Dickens for OWC and Penguin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192840355
• ISBN 13: 9780192840356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304