This important study offers close readings of The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, considered in feminist, Marxist, and other theoretical and critical contexts.

Charlotte Brontk (Key Women Writers)

Literature & Fiction

Boumelha, Penny

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

"... Boumelha offers fascinating analyses of Brontë's work and of feminist criticism of Brontë." ―Choice

Charlotte Brontë (Key Women Writers)

Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form

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Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

This volume in the New Casebook series examines and illustrates the ways in which Hardy criticism has been transformed by the growth of literary theory. Extracts from feminist, deconstructionist, Marxist and other contemporary readings of Jude the Obscure offer at once a range of discussions of the novel itself and a practical introduction to modes of theory-based interpretation. Boumelha's Introduction gives an overview of such contemporary developments in Hardy criticism.

Jude the Obscure: Thomas Hardy (New Casebooks)

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Rl Innactive Titles

The Harvester Press / Barnes & Noble Books

This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy’s reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. Penny Boumelha here examines his writing in the light of its central concern with women and marriage. The author traces Hardy’s development from the early novels, in which the male and female natures are polarities, to the later fictions. This culminated in Jude the Obscure, in which there are marked similarities between the two protagonists and where the heroine’s tragedy resides not in any given idea of female nature, but in her specific experiences as a woman.
This new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter - '"Bright Faces of the New:" Bodies, Children and Futures in Hardy's Novels.' - which seeks to balance the widespread critical emphasis on Hardy's preoccupation with the way that the past - personal, historical and evolutionary - impinges on the present with an exploration of his representation of possible futures.

Thomas Hardy and Women

Reference

Edward Everett Root

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