| Edition |
New Editon. |
| Description |
xlix, 441 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xliv). |
| Note |
"Revised version of the 1993 World's Classics edition"--Page [vi]. |
| Contents |
Note on this edition -- Abbreviations used in this edition -- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- Chronology of Anne Bronte -- Tenant Of Wildfell Hall -- Explanatory notes -- To J Halford, ESQ -- Discovery -- Interview -- Controversy -- Party -- Studio -- Progression -- Excursion -- Present -- Snake in the grass -- Contract and a quarrel -- Vicar again -- Tete-a-tete and a discovery -- Return to duty -- Assault -- Encounter and its consequences -- Warnings of experience -- Further warnings -- Miniature -- Incident -- Persistence -- Opinions -- Traits of friendship -- First weeks of matrimony -- First quarrel -- First absence -- Guests -- Misdemeanor -- Parental feelings -- Neighbor -- Domestic scenes -- Social virtues -- Comparisons: information rejected -- Two evenings -- Concealment -- Provocations -- Dual solitude -- Neighbor again -- Injured man -- Scheme of escape -- Misadventure -- Hope springs eternal in the human breast -- Reformation -- Boundary past -- Retreat -- Reconciliation -- Friendly counsels -- Startling intelligence -- Further intelligence -- Rain descended -- Doubts and disappointments -- Unexpected occurrence -- Fluctuations -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
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." |
| Subject |
Landlord and tenant -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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Alcoholics -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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Alcoholics. (OCoLC)fst00804414
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Landlord and tenant. (OCoLC)fst00991718
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Married women. (OCoLC)fst01010701
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Domestic fiction.
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| Added Author |
Rosengarten, Herbert, editor.
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McDonagh, Josephine, introduction, notes.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849. Tenant of Wildfell Hall. New ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 (OCoLC)648796194 |
| ISBN |
9780199207558 |
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0199207550 |
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