Three Brontës and Victorians

A couple of new editions or reeditions recently published:

Indypublish.com continues re-publishing Brontë-related books (recently published Gaskell's bio of Charlotte). Now has re-issued in a paperback and hardback edition, May Sinclair's The Three Brontës (that is also available in the Project Guttenberg, see our side bar) .

The Victorian Novel written by Louis James and published by Blackwell Publishing that we presented some weeks ago in its first paperback edition has now appeared in hardback in USA. In the following weeks some other books that we have been posting about recently will be released in paperback and we will inform about them punctually.

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel.
Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.
Considers the relationship between the Victorian novel and historical, religious and bibliographic writing.
Features short biographies of over forty Victorian authors, including Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Offers close readings of over 30 key texts, among them Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), as well as key presences, such as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Pt 1, 1676, Pt 2, 1684).
Also covers topics such as colonialism, scientific speculation, the psychic and the supernatural, and working class reading.

Categories: Books, Biography, Victorian Era, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë