...J. Hillis Miller Spirit Becomes Matter: The Brontës, George Eliot, Nietzsche . By Staten Henry . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2014 . ix + 189 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 This highly original and important book demonstrates that Victorian...

...?: Style in the Novel. By MARGOTPETERS. Madison: Univer- sity of Wisconsin Press, 1973. ix + 175 pp. $10.00. The literary credo advanced in a Charlotte BrontE letter of September, 1848, well embodies the focal interests of Margot Peters’s study: Unless I have something of my own...

.... JOHN W. DODD~ Stanford University The Brontes’ Web of Childhood. By FANNIEELIZABETH RATCH- FORD. With illustrations. Kew York : Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xx + 293. $3.50. The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte. Edited from the Man- uscripts by C. W...

..., stressing Cranford’s hidden strengths rather than its charm. 276 NINA AUEKBACH 27 7 her vision was at one with that of her incendiary friend Charlotte Bronte in locating the sexual war as the real boiling over...

... to any understanding of Coleridge’s intellectual life. SUSANJ. WOLFSON Rutgers University, New Brunswick Female Friendships and Communities: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, E limbeth Gaskell. By PAULINENESTOR. Oxford: Clarendon Press...

... to thank Bette London for her insightful comments on an earlier draft of this essay. M& Language Quarterly 56:1, March 1995.0 1995 University of Washington. 78 MLQI March 1995 waited as “one by one” the BrontE children “dropped off.”2 These sto...

... herself, but hers is basically a rural, folklore, traditional culture rather than a bookish culture, and one is almost tempted to suggest that these are Lockwood’s more cultivated paraphrases of what Nelly actually said, that stylistically, for a moment, Emily Bronte is reminding us that Lock...

.... JOHN W. DODD~ Stanford University The Brontes’ Web of Childhood. By FANNIEELIZABETH RATCH- FORD. With illustrations. Kew York : Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xx + 293. $3.50. The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte. Edited from the Man- uscripts by C. W...

... “You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827,” Gilbert Mark- ham begins the first chapter of The Tenant of Wildfell HaZZ.1 The last words of the novel are likewise a date, a much later one, “June 1 Oth, 1847” (p.490)-the very year in which Anne Bronte was writing...

...Herbert Rosengarten Enid L. Duthie. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. xiii + 237 pp. $19.50. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 I00 REVIEWS The Foreign Vision of Charlotte Bronte. By ENIDL. DUTHIE.New York...

... “Lohenstein’s Protagonists,”4 has done himself a disservice with this book. DAVIDBRONSEN Washington University Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Bronte Sisters as Early-Victorian Female Novelists. By INCA-STINAEWBANK. Cambridge: Harvard...

....” -Jane Eye1 Appeals to self-respect occur repeatedly in Charlotte BrontE’s fic- tion. Perhaps for this reason, and perhaps too because self-respect, like self-esteem, has become indispensable to our modern vocabulary of self- consciousness, the significance of these appeals is easy...

...-no! a real love, a love which has flesh and blood. . . . -Ludwig Feuerbach’ CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S “TALE HALF-TOLD” THE DISRUPTION OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN JANE EYRE...

...Miriam Bailin © 1989 University of Washington 1987 “VARIETIES OF PAIN” THE VICTORIAN SICKROOM AND BRONTE’S SHIRLEY By MIRLAMBAILIN There is scarcely a Victorian narrative without its ailing...

.... JOHN W. DODD~ Stanford University The Brontes’ Web of Childhood. By FANNIEELIZABETH RATCH- FORD. With illustrations. Kew York : Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xx + 293. $3.50. The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte. Edited from the Man- uscripts by C. W...

..., time, and characterization; and as a means of clustering metaphors around dominant thematic antitheses. Here, while noting the metaphorical patterns defining such contrasts as those between fetters and freedom, Peters wisely refuses to oversimplify the BrontE novels as structural conflicts...

.... The literary credo advanced in a Charlotte BrontE letter of September, 1848, well embodies the focal interests of Margot Peters’s study: Unless I have something of my own to say, and a way of my own to say it in, I have no business to publish. Unless I can look beyond the greatest Masters...

... Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Bronte Sisters as Early-Victorian Female Novelists. By INCA-STINAEWBANK. Cambridge: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 1966. xvii + 222 pp. $5.95. Inga-Stina Ewbank‘s interest is in the question of what the early Vic- torians saw as the proper sphere of a woman...

..., for Armstrong, also means to deny the social and political in favor of the personal. So, for example, when she discusses the nature of desire in Jane Eyre , she frames it as a negation of courtship convention in Austen. The pantomime scene in Brontë’s novel, Armstrong ( 1987 : 193) argues, “refers...

... or a newly meaningful approach to some portion of it. Each deplores the fact- as must anyone familiar with North and South and The Life of Char- lotte Bronte-that to the common reader Mrs. Gaskell is chiefly known (when she is known at all) as the author of Cranford, a pleasant but in some ways...