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Myths of Power

A Marxist Study of the Brontës

T. Eagleton

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Palgrave
01 April 2005
Myths of Power - Anniversary Edition sets out to interpret the fiction of the Brontë sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts, but by a close critical examination of the novels, to find in them a significant structure of ideas and values which related to the Brontës' ambiguous situation within the class-system of their society. Its intention is to forge close relations between the novels, nineteenth-century ideology, and historical forces, in order to illuminate the novels themselves in a radically new perspective. When originally published in 1975 (second edition in 1988), it was the first full-length Marxist study of the Brontës and is now reissued to celebrate 30 years since its first publication. It includes a new Introduction by Terry Eagleton which reflects on the changes which have happened in Marxist literary criticism since 1988, and situates this reissue of the second edition in current debates.
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Imprint:   Palgrave
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Anniversary edition
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   237g
ISBN:   9781403946980
ISBN 10:   1403946981
Pages:   176
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgements New Introduction to the Reissue of the Second Edition Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction Jane Eyre The Professor Shirley Villette The Structure of Charlotte Brontë's Fiction Wuthering Heights Anne Brontë Notes Index

Terry Eagleton is the author of nearly thirty books, including Shakespeare and Society (1967), The New Left Church (1968), Exiles and Emigres (1970), Myths of Power (1975, second edition 1988), Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976), Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), The Function of Criticism (1984), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), The Idea of Culture (2000), a memoir - The Gatekeeper (2002) - and his most recent, After Theory (2004). He is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.

Reviews for Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës

Reviews of the first edition: <br>. ..a valuable book for anyone wanting to move beyond critical pieties to an understanding of the relation between the Bront&#235;s' work and their society. Dr Eagleton asks questions which ought be asked. --Juliet Dusinberre, Notes and Queries <br>. ..this is a book of real stature, of cogent and steely argument and analysis... --Adrian Poole, Cambridge Review <br> The increased prominence of largely forgotten texts by women writers, working-class writers or black writers, in part came from work undertaken by Eagleton. 'But, interestingly, Terry himself hasn't really gone down that route, ' says Widdowson. 'His criticism had been largely based on canonical authors, but his approach to Hardy or Lawrence or the Bront&#235;s - dealt with in the light of new theories - suggested new ways of looking at canonical texts, which have been followed through by other people. For instance, he'll take marginalized figures from books, push them to the foreground


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