The Shelleyan Brontës

The Shelleyan Brontës Mary and Percy Shelley in the Work of the Brontës - Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed examination of the Shelleyan narrative accessible to the Brontës from their childhood to their final novels, this study argues for a fresh perspective on the Brontës' engagement with the Shelleys in both their juvenilia and later seven novels. In this respect, the book considers the Brontës as readers rather than exclusively as writers, viewing them as a product of the early nineteenth-century literary marketplace which maintained affinities to Romanticism. Reading, rewriting, and appropriating the textual Shelleys was a fundamental vein stemming the Brontës' writing from childhood, with Mary epitomising the model for what the sisters would eventually become: the female novelist.

Book information

ISBN: 9783031560514
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2024th edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 238
Weight: -1g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm