num_pages: 120
description: This study examines Anne Brontë's poetry and prose fiction with particular reference to prevalent image patterns. The examination of images focuses on Brontë's antithetical method, which explores social structures and their inherent dichotomies. Her analyses of contemporary society represent such problems as inequality, isolation, alcoholism, and abuse through an interlocking system of images which connect external setting with internal reality. The recurrent images of structural elements both describe aspects of the physical environment -- households, landscapes, seasons -- and provide an evocative poetical structure that underpins her texts. Brontë's strategy is to use linked images of enclosed and open spaces to realize emotional states and to trace the psychological and spiritual development of character.
language: English
title: Anne Bronte's Radical Vision: Structures of Consciousness
titlecomplete: Anne Bronte's Radical Vision: Structures of Consciousness (E L S MONOGRAPH SERIES)
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1
publisher: English Literary Studies Monograph Series