This illustrated biography examines the life and legacy of Emily Bronte. The enigma that a young woman from such a closed and protected environment as a Yorkshire rectory could write the wildly romantic and complex Wuthering Heights has long been a source of fascination. Largely self-educated, Emily spent most of her life at the rectory in Haworth. Her solitary instincts are well-known, and the biographer's task has been made no easier by her refusal to give anything of herself away to anyone during her lifetime. Robert Barnard examines her insulated childhood, and the stories of Gondal and Angria, leading to the lyrical poems of her twenties which prefigure the raw intensity of Wuthering Heights. He demonstrates that many aspects of Wuthering Heights were shaped or stimulated by her own experiences, many of which can be traced to real examples. He also refers extensively to other critical sources, from early reviews of Wuthering Heights to Mrs. Gaskell's appraisal of Emily's stern selfishness, to Juliet Barker's recent biography of the Bronte family.
Volume 1 of the Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke presents Burke's early literary writings up to 1765, and before he became a key political figure.
The Works of Aphra Behn: The fair jilt and other short stories
The Ruined Cottage: The Brothers Michael
The greatest quotes from Dickens...an essential reference book providing every notable and quotable passage or short comment by Dickens on a subject which interested the great author...encompassing all his work.
This volume contains more than 350 letters, the great majority of them previously unpublished, which are supplemented, as before, by scrupulous annotation and extensive cross-referencing; by a chronology covering the whole of Hardy's career ...
Ed. J. M. Robson. Intro. Alexander Brady. Toronto and Buffalo: U of Toronto P; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. 213-310. . The Subjection of Women 1869. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education. Vol. 21 of Collected Works of John ...
Richard M. Dunn , Geoffrey Scott and the Berenson Circle : Literary and Aesthetic Life in the Early 20th Century 35. Gary Gautier , Landed Patriarchy in Fielding's Novels : Fictional Landscapes , Fictional Genders 36.
He was at one point tempted to join Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical movement, as Biely had done. When he met Steiner in March 1911, he explained what in the school attracted him, asking Steiner whether one could be a writer and a ...
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that none of our students were black, few were women, or that the values we "disinterestedly" discovered in Jane Austen or E. M. Forster were at least partly determined by racial, social, and sexual presuppositions.