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Anne Bronte (Paperback)
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Anne Bronte (Paperback)
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Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(1848) each offer a fascinating account of the relation between
gender and power in nineteenth-century Britain. While Bronte's
first novel focuses on the governess and education, it shares, with
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, a concern with female disempowerment
and the ways in which forms of tyranny can be resisted. Through her
inscriptions of the complex intersections of gender, class,
sexuality and education, it becomes clear that Anne Bronte
articulates and interrogates those issues which still remain
crucial to feminist debates at the close of the twentieth-century.
Drawing upon recent literary and critical scholarship, Betty Jay
sets out to re-evaluate Bronte's novels by arguing that this
engagement is as incisive as it is compelling. The need to
re-appraise Bronte's work in the light of contemporary critical
discourse also extends to include her poetry. To this end, close
textual readings of a selection of the poems show the extent to
which the simplicity and sentiment conventionally ascribed to the
verse deceive the reader, working to conceal Anne Bronte's more
intricate and powerful poetics of subjectivity and loss.
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