This is the textbook of a subject given at the Institute of English & American Studies of the University of Szeged in Hungary:
Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature
by Anna Kérchy
Published by the Institute of English & American Studies of the University of Szeged
ISBN: 978 963 306 886 1
The unit 10 is the Brontë sisters one:
Unit 10
Gothic Romanticism in the Novels of the Brontë Sisters
AIM OF THIS UNIT: The unit explains the significance of the Brontë sisters in Victorian literature with close readings of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
KEY FIGURES: Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
COMPULSORY READING: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
KEY WORDS & TOPICS: gothic romanticism, madwoman in the attic, Electra complex, dark double, Liebestod, governess novel, sensation novel, family romance, double Bildungsroman, homely Gothic, social problem novel, Florence Nightingale, Married Women’s Property Act
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