A couple of Brontë-related scholar books that we have discovered through
the latest issue of Brontë Studies:
The Treatment of the Themes of Mortality in the Poetry of the Brontë Sisters
Yana Atanasova Rowland
Plovdiv University Press, 2006 (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
361 pp
ISBN(10) 954-423-362-8
ISBN(13) 978-954-423-362-8
From the Brontë Studies's review:
Throughout the monograph, Rowland applies to her reading of the Brontës' poetry a theoretical/philosophical paradigm, comprising ideas from Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida and Bakhtin, in order to explicate their 'common existential problem'. The Brontës' 'literary infatuation with mortality' therefore 'discloses their ontological growth' (p. 4), and is also an important 'hermeneutical tool' for interpreting existence. (Susan Bauman)
Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700–2000
Mark Knight and Thomas Woodman
ISBN: 0 7546 5117 7
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5117-8
Publication Date: 07/2006
Number of Pages: 170 pages
The novel has been called 'the one secular genre'. Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000, engages with the way the history of the modern novel reflects an ongoing dialogue with religion despite, and even through, the process of secularization. It focusses especially on the role of biblical narratives as subtexts of modern and contemporary literature. The contributors consider a range of texts from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries by Fielding, Brontë, Lawrence, Winterson, and Coupland, among others, to examine in different yet complementary ways the multiplicity of approaches that novelists have adopted to address religious concerns.
One of the essays is entitled:
The clue to the Brontës?: Methodism and Wuthering Heights by Emma Mason.
Categories: Books, Scholar
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