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We Are Three Sisters: Self and Family in the Writing of the Brontes
By Drew Lamonica
274 pages
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- University of Missouri Press
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Yorkshire (England)--in Literature
Sisters in Literature
Brontee Family
Brontee, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Criticism and Interpretation
Brontee, Emily, 1818-1848--Criticism and Interpretation
Brontee, Anne, 1820-1849--Criticism and Interpretation
Women and Literature--England--History--19th Century
Women and Literature--England--Yorkshire
Family in Literature
Self in Literature
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Sisters in Literature
Brontee Family
Brontee, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Criticism and Interpretation
Brontee, Emily, 1818-1848--Criticism and Interpretation
Brontee, Anne, 1820-1849--Criticism and Interpretation
Women and Literature--England--History--19th Century
Women and Literature--England--Yorkshire
Family in Literature
Self in Literature
Autobiography in Literature
Synopsis
While biographers have widely acknowledged the importance of family relationships to the Brontes' writing processes, literary critics have yet to give extensive consideration to the family as a subject of the writing itself. In "We Are Three Sisters, " Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Brontes' fiction of personal development, exploring the ways in which it recognizes the family as a defining community for selfhood.
Drawing on extensive primary sources, including works by Sarah ...
While biographers have widely acknowledged the importance of family relationships to the Brontes' writing processes, literary critics have yet to give extensive consideration to the family as a subject of the writing itself. In "We Are Three Sisters, " Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Brontes' fiction of personal development, exploring the ways in which it recognizes the family as a defining community for selfhood.
Drawing on extensive primary sources, including works by Sarah Ellis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Richelieu Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell, Lamonica examines the dialogic relationship between the Brontes' novels and a mid-Victorian domestic ideology disseminated in conduct books and home guides that held the family to be the original nurturer of subjectivity. Using a sociohistorical framework, "We Are Three Sisters" shows that the Brontes' novels display a heightened awareness of the complexities of contemporary female experience and the,problems of securing a valued sense of selfhood not wholly dependent on family ties.
Chapter one discusses the mid-Victorian "culture of the family, " in which the Brontes emerged as voices exploring the adequacy of the family as the site for personal, and particularly female, development. Chapter two provides an introduction to the Brontes' early collaborative writings, in order to understand the sisters' shared interest in the family's formative role in the context of their own experience as a family of authors. It also shows the influences of Patrick and Branwell Bronte on the development of their sisters' writing.
Chapters three through seven explore the various constructionsof family in the sisters' novels. Of the numerous studies on the Brontes, comparatively few consider all seven novels together, and no previous study has undertaken to examine the Brontes' writing in the context of mid-Vict
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Table of contents
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- “we Are Three Sisters” *
- “we Are Three Sisters” - Self and Family in the Writing of the Brontës *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Abbreviations xi
- “we Are Three Sisters” *
- Introduction - Family as Context and Content 1
- Chapter One - The Victorian Context Self, Family, and Society 10
- Chapter Two - The Family Context Writing as Sibling Relationship 36
- Chapter Three - Jane Eyre the Pilgrimage of the “poor Orphan Child” 67
- Chapter Four - Wuthering Heights the Boundless Passion of Catherine Earnshaw 95
- Chapter Five - Agnes Grey and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall Lessons of the Family 118
- Chapter Six - The Professor and Shirley Industrial Pollution of Family Relations and Values 147
- Chapter Seven - Villette Authorial Regeneration and the Death of the Family 179
- Conclusion - Life After Villette 209
- Abbreviations in Notes 213
- “we Are Three Sisters” *
- “we Are Three Sisters” - Self and Family in the Writing of the Brontës *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Abbreviations xi
- “we Are Three Sisters” *
- Introduction - Family as Context and Content 1
- Chapter One - The Victorian Context Self, Family, and Society 10
- Chapter Two - The Family Context Writing as Sibling Relationship 36
- Chapter Three - Jane Eyre the Pilgrimage of the “poor Orphan Child” 67
- Chapter Four - Wuthering Heights the Boundless Passion of Catherine Earnshaw 95
- Chapter Five - Agnes Grey and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall Lessons of the Family 118
- Chapter Six - The Professor and Shirley Industrial Pollution of Family Relations and Values 147
- Chapter Seven - Villette Authorial Regeneration and the Death of the Family 179
- Conclusion - Life After Villette 209
- Abbreviations in Notes 213
- Notes 215
- Bibliography 233
- Index 255
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