1st Edition

The Brontes The Critical Heritage

Edited By Miriam Allott Copyright 1996
496 Pages
by Routledge

496 Pages
by Routledge

496 Pages
by Routledge

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Introduction; Note on the Text; Part 1 The critical reputation of the ‘brothers Bell’, 1846–53; Chapter 1 Poems by Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell; Chapter 2 The Novels of ‘Currer Bell’ 1947–53, Jane Eyre; Chapter 3 Shirley; Chapter 4 Villette; Chapter 5 The Novels of ‘Ellis and Acton Bell’, 1847–8, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey; Chapter 6 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Part 2 The Brontës in the 1850s; Chapter 7 Sydney Dobell on ‘Currer Bell’ and Wuthering Heights, Palladium; Chapter 8 Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey; Chapter 9 Mrs Gaskell’s the Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857); Part 3 Judgments and opinions, 1858–99; Chapter 10 ;

Biography

Miriam Allott

'An indispensable book'. -BrontëBlog

'If you consider yourself a true Brontë aficionado and the shelves of your library still lack a copy of The The Brontes: The Critical Heritage, it's your chance now'. - BrontëBlog