The tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Published
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
ISBN
9780199207558
Lexile measure
1190L
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC Brontë, Anne | On Shelf |
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor | FICTION BRONTE | On Shelf |
St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC BRONTE | On Shelf |
West Chicago Public Library District - Adult Fiction | F BRO | On Shelf |
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Published
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xlix, 441 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780199207558
Lexile measure
1190
Notes
General Note
"Revised version of the 1993 World's Classics edition"--P. [vi].
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page [xli]-xliv).
Description
Overview: Anne, like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, published under a male pseudonym, Acton Bell, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era. Just as she had to use a male pseudonym in order to be free to publish, as women authors were not yet deemed acceptable or bankable, Helen Graham, the novel's protagonist and a battered wife, assumes an alias in order to gain freedom from her suffering and take up residence in Wildfell Hall, "the wildest and the loftiest eminence in our neighborhood," according to the tale's narrator. Like her sisters, Anne employs the atmosphere of the bleak Yorkshire moors and the presence of an old mansion to set the stage for a tragedy that reveals the secret violence in a society considered well-mannered, echoing the rough, cold, rugged gloom of the fictional Wildfell Hall and her family's own remote parsonage; narrating a story that Bronte scholar Margeret Lane remarked, "is so close to one of the tragedies in the sisters' own lives, that no perceptive reader can be indifferent to it."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brontë, A., & Rosengarten, H. (2008). The tenant of Wildfell Hall (New edition.). Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 and Herbert. Rosengarten. 2008. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 and Herbert. Rosengarten. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Oxford University Press, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brontë, Anne, and Herbert Rosengarten. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall New edition., Oxford University Press, 2008.
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