This study charts Charlotte BrontI's critical fortunes over the last fifty years. It looks at the nature of her "romanticism" and her relationship with her readers. All the important writings about her since the 1930's, including feminist and Freudian treatments, are sifted and analyzed. Sharp, lively and original, with full scholarly apparatus, the book will put Charlotte BrontI in perspective for the general reader and will be invaluable to the student. Available for the first time in the U.S. Contents: Introduction; "Three Weird Sisters" and Socks for Mr. Nicholls; Mr. Rockingham and Monsieur Beck; "How very corse!"; "Mad Methodist Magazines"; Patrick BrontI's^R The Cottage in the Wood and the plot of Jane Eyre; "Hypochondria"; Charlotte and her Unconscious; Jane Eyre; Fairytale and the Imagination; Signs, Presentiments and Sympathies; Style, Suggestion and Emblem; Female Inner Space and Moral Madness; The Maiming of Edward Rochester; Shirley: a Feminist Document?; Villette; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN10 0389207632
- ISBN13 9780389207634
- Publish Date 25 July 1989
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 21 October 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Barnes & Noble Books-Imports, Div of Rowman & Littlefield Pubs., Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English