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Charlotte Brontë / Diane Long Hoeveler and Lisa Jadwin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 541Publication details: New York : Twayne Publishers, 1997.Description: xii, 189 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0805745130 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8 21
LOC classification:
  • PR4169 .H64 1997
Contents:
"Fact is often stranger than fiction": biographers on Charlotte Brontë -- "The world below": Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia -- "Low at my master's knee I bent": The professor -- I know no medium": Jane Eyre -- "How to endure without a sob": Shirley -- "This heretic narrative": Villette -- "All turned up in tumult": the poetry and letters.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 823.8 B869c Available 33111003345242
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts

Twaynes United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading theAuthors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features:

A critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works A brief biography of the author An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index A readable style presented in a manageable length

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-182) and index.

"Fact is often stranger than fiction": biographers on Charlotte Brontë -- "The world below": Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia -- "Low at my master's knee I bent": The professor -- I know no medium": Jane Eyre -- "How to endure without a sob": Shirley -- "This heretic narrative": Villette -- "All turned up in tumult": the poetry and letters.

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