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Tables of Contents for A Preface to the Brontes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Chronological table
1
6
Introduction
7
8
PART ONE: THE BRONTES AND THEIR BACKGROUND
15
50
A parsonage childhood
16
11
Patrick Bronte
16
3
School experience
19
8
The path to maturity
27
17
The choice of a profession
27
1
`A stalking ghost'
27
4
Brussels
31
7
Return to Haworth
38
2
Early Publications
40
4
The deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne
44
8
Charlotte's later novels and marriage
52
13
PART TWO: CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND
65
70
History and Politics
66
7
Religion
73
13
The Evangelical movement and the Established Church
73
5
The Oxford movement
78
5
Religious ideas in the novels
83
3
Reading and literary influences
86
9
The Gothic
89
3
Byron
92
3
The juvenilia
95
14
Origins
95
3
The Glass Town Saga
98
2
Angria
100
5
Gondal
105
1
Emily Bronte's Poems and the juvenilia
106
3
The Brontes and the visual arts
109
10
Thomas Bewick
109
5
John Martin
114
5
The condition of women question
119
16
Education and employment for women in the nineteenth century
119
2
Educational work
121
4
Authorship: constraints on female authors
125
4
Two feminist interpretations: Jane Eyre and Shirley
129
6
PART THREE: CRITICAL SURVEY
135
74
Jane Eyre (1847)
136
20
The orphan's quest
136
1
Structure
136
10
Religion and the supernatural
146
3
Point of view
149
1
What `kind' of a novel?
149
3
Prose extract and critical commentary
152
4
Villette (1853)
156
19
Narrative choices: Brussels transformed
156
1
Literary and artistic metaphors
156
4
Women character models
160
1
Pictorial models
161
7
Themes of disguise and concealment: the spy
168
1
Prose extract and critical commentary
169
6
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
175
7
Structure
178
1
Characterization
178
2
Religion
180
2
Emily Bronte's poetry
182
9
Imagination
184
7
Wuthering Heights (1847)
191
16
Structure: time, narration and place
191
6
Love and death
197
3
Religion
200
2
Mysticism and nature
202
1
Prose extract, Cathy's vision, and critical commentary
202
5
Conclusion
207
2
PART FOUR: REFERENCE SECTION
209
1
Brief Biographies
210
8
Further reading
218
4
General index
222
2
Index of Bronte works
224