Emily Bronte
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- 1989
Summary
Emily Bront_'s writings explore, expand, and transgress limited nineteenth-century ideas of the nature of the female lot and of women's creativity. This study offers an extensive rereading of the poems which focuses on Emily Bront_'s problematic relationship to the Romantic tradition in which they were produced, and to the critical tradition in which they have been reproduced. Using recent feminist work on gender and genre Lyn Pykett throws fresh light on the complexities of Wuthering Heights, and suggests that much of this novel's distinctiveness may be attributed to the particular ways in which it both combines and explores Female Gothic and the emerging realist domestic novel, a genre also widely used and read by women. Contents: Emily Bront_: A Life Hidden from History; The Writings of Ellis Bell; 'Not at all like the poetry women generally write' Emily Bront_ and the Problem of the Woman Poet; Death Dreams and Prison Songs; Gender and Genre in^R Wuthering Heights; Changing the Names: The Two Catherines; Nelly Dean: Memoirs of a Survivor; The Male Part of the Poem; Reading Women's Writing: Emily Bront_ and the Critics
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 1989
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-389-20880-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7425-7810-4
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Editors' Preface No access
- 1. Emily Brontë: A Life Hidden From History No access Pages 1 - 17
- 2. The Writings of Ellis Bell No access Pages 18 - 35
- 3. 'Not at all like the poetry women generally write': the Problem of the Woman Poet No access Pages 36 - 47
- 4. Death Dreams and Prison Songs No access Pages 48 - 70
- 5. Gender and Genre in Wuthering Heights: Gothic Plot and Domestic Fiction No access Pages 71 - 85
- 6. Changing the Names: the Two Catherines No access Pages 86 - 98
- 7. Nelly Dean: Memoirs of a Survivor No access Pages 99 - 108
- 8. The Male Part of the Poem No access Pages 109 - 120
- 9. Reading Women's Writing: Emily Brontë and Critics No access Pages 121 - 134
- Notes No access Pages 135 - 139
- Bibliography No access Pages 140 - 143
- Index No access Pages 144 - 2





