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Apocalypse when? 'Shirley''s and the politics of reading. (Charlotte Bronte's novel)
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19941222
Author:Greene, Sally
Charlotte Bronte's 'Shirley' offers interesting insights about the author's perceptions on religion, women's role in society and the meaning of literary form. These apparently disparate topics are linked together because they all stem from Bronte's response to contemporary thought. The episode surrounding Shirley Keeldar's essay 'The First Blue-Stocking' and Louis Moore's response in the novel is particularly revealing in the context of Bronte's interaction with Constantin Heger over her 'The Fall of the Leaves.'
Among the essays, or devoirs, that Charlotte Bronte wrote in French for ...
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