Charlotte Bronte And The Storytellers Audience

Author : Carol Bock
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587290190
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë and the Storyteller's Audience written by Carol Bock and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intelligent study offers a new and appreciative understanding of Charlotte Bronte as a narrative artist. With care and precision, Bock counters the prevailing view of Bronte's fiction as unconsciously confessional, clearly showing her persistent concern with the reader's collaborative role in the storytelling experience. Bock begins with an examination of the creative milieu at Haworth, where Bronte initially gained an understanding of her craft, and continues with a look at Bronte's relationship with her first audience, Branwell, Emily, and Anne, as well as the influence of her early readings in Scott, Byron, and Blackwood's Magazine. Bronte's juvenile tales are used to describe the model of storytelling that she conceptualized during these formative years - a model which reflects her belief that author and reader meet on the border of actuality and imagination in order to pursue the truths that narrative fiction can contain. Individual chapters discuss the motif of reading and storytelling in The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette and consider the narrative methods which characterize Bronte's relationship with her readers in each of these novels. Bock traces Bronte's development as a storyteller from an early struggle to reconceptualize her audience as she tried to enter the literary marketplace with The Professor to, in her final novel, Villette, a complex acknowledgment of the ways truth may be encompassed - contained, named, and observed - in fictional narrative and a hopeful account of the creative event in which readers and writers participate. Charlotte Bronte and the Storyteller's Audience also includes a history of the critical reception of Bronte's novels, pointing out some of the interpretive constraints by which the practice of reading her fiction as unconscious confession has limited our understanding of her narrative skill and literary concerns.

Author : Sara Lodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137086033
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre written by Sara Lodge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Lodge offers a lively introduction to the critical history of one of the most widely-studied nineteenth-century novels, from the first reviews through to present day responses. The Guide also includes sections devoted to feminist, Marxist and postcolonial criticism of Jane Eyre, as well as analysis of recent developments.

Author : B. A. Sheen
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590332603
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Writers written by B. A. Sheen and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Writers - A Bibliography with Vignettes

Author : Judith E. Pike
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131716816X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings written by Judith E. Pike and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century's literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer's mind. As the contributors show, Brontë's authorship took shape among the pages of her juvenilia, as figures from Brontë's childhood experience of the world such as Wellington and Napoleon transmuted to her fictional pages, while her siblings' works and worlds both overlapped with and extended beyond her own.

Author : Heather Glen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515159
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History written by Heather Glen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating study of Charlotte Brontë's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways in which Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, it offers a powerful argument for the "literary" as a distinctive mode of intelligence, and reveals a Charlotte Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. The study will be of interest not only to students of Victorian literature and society, but also to those literary critics and theorists who are beginning to reconsider the nature of the aesthetic and its relation to ideology.

Author : Justine Pizzo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030348555
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World written by Justine Pizzo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history, literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volume addresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels (The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and “Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences that shaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and drawing), Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World forges new connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’s work.

Author : Elsie Browning Michie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195177789
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre written by Elsie Browning Michie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections, this work explores a range of interpretive strategies applied to readings of "Jane Eyre". The last section includes essays that frame the historical and social contexts out of which "Jane Eyre" arose, and investigate the critical reception and afterlife of the text." - publisher.

Author : Christine Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521812931
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf written by Christine Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the juvenilia of famous authors including Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

Author : Sonjeong Cho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135491038
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ethics of Becoming written by Sonjeong Cho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual identity of contemporary poststructuralist feminism and its profound resonance with the nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman. Rooted in fundamental questions about the nexus between feminist theory and feminist literature, genre and gender, subjectivity and ethics, sexuality and textuality, and mimesis and politics, this book aims specifically to configure feminine subjectivity in the horizon of becoming - always incomplete, non-identarian, performative, unknowable, and thus paradoxically unbecoming - as it disseminates in a modality of alterity in novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. The close reading of major novels by these women writers illuminates the artistic density and ethical depth of their writing by demonstrating that these women writers rewrite the genealogy of subjectivity and invent their own Bildungsroman as a rich narrative vehicle for the feminine.

Author : P. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113749154X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Novel and Masculinity written by P. Mallett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontës to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them.