1st Edition

The Bronte Sisters Critical Assessments

Edited By Eleanor McNees
2614 Pages
by Routledge

The Bronte sisters have received an enormous amount of critical attention, given their short lives and relatively slender literary production. As a group and individually the Brontes' works resist being swept away by any one critical approach. They defied conventional ideas of the novel genre and have always made it difficult for critics to categorize them. The aim of these volumes is to... Read more
VOLUME I Recollections, Obituaries, Early Studies, 1848-1943, Evaluations of Juvenilia and Poems, Writers on the Writing, VOLUME II Responses to the Novels Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, VOLUME III Evaluations of the Novels: Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, VOLUME IV Evaluations of The Professor', Twentieth-century Studies, 1947-93; Comparative Studies

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Eleanor McNees