"We are three sisters" : self and family in the writing of the Brontës

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Title:

"We are three sisters" : self and family in the writing of the Brontës

Author:

Lamonica, Drew, 1973-

Personal Author:

Lamonica, Drew, 1973-

Publication Information:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 25 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Family as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette.

Personal Subject:

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855-Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848-Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849-Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë family.

Subject Term:

Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.

Women and literature -- England -- Yorkshire.

Autobiography in literature.

Sisters in literature.

Families in literature.

Self in literature.