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The Brontes: A Collection of Critical Essays
Charlotte and Emily Bronte have long been the subjects of critical and popular intrest-both their lives and their works, states editor Ian Gregor. In this volume ten noted authors and critics-including R. B. Heilman, Dennis Donoghue, and David Lodge-probe the works of the Brontes to show the influences that shaped the mystical worlds of their novels and poems and contributed to their distinctive styles.
Their novels, points out Richard Chase, are not rebellions against Victorian socialstandards, as it is commonly belived, but rather are Charlotte and Emily's way of transmuting Victorian ideals into symbolic form. In studying such aspects of the Bronte's literature as imagery, ideas of love, and Gothic style, other contributors show, in Gregor's words, "how most interpretations invariably retuen to the question of Charlotte and Emily's personal involvement in their novels."
Their novels, points out Richard Chase, are not rebellions against Victorian socialstandards, as it is commonly belived, but rather are Charlotte and Emily's way of transmuting Victorian ideals into symbolic form. In studying such aspects of the Bronte's literature as imagery, ideas of love, and Gothic style, other contributors show, in Gregor's words, "how most interpretations invariably retuen to the question of Charlotte and Emily's personal involvement in their novels."
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Published January 1, 1970
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