New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë

Barbara A. Suess and Julie Nash

• Contents: Preface; Contextualizing Anne Brontë’s Bible, Maria Frawley; the first chapter of Agnes Grey: an analysis of the sympathetic narrator, Larry H. Peer; Class, matriarchy and power: contextualizing the governess in Agnes Grey, James R. Simmons; ’The food of my life’: Agnes Grey at Wellwood House, Marilyn Sheridan Gardner; Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey: the feminist; ’I must stand alone’, Bettina L. Knapp; Narrative economies in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Garrett Stewart; ’I speak of those I do know’: witnessing as radical gesture in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Deborah Denenholz Morse; Anne Brontë’s method of social protest in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Lee A. Talley; Aspects of love in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Marianne Thormählen; Wildfell Hall as satire: Brontë’s domestic Vanity Fair, Andrés G. López; Helen’s diary and the method(ism) of character formation in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Melody J. Kemp; A matter of strong prejudice: Gilbert Markham’s self portrait, Andrea Westcott; Index.

'Highly recommended for all academic libraries, lower-division undergraduate through faculty, and for the general readers.' Choice '...a book worth reading for those working on the Brontës.' Review of English Studies