Title: Charlotte Brontë and female desire
Description: "This book explores many forms of desire, including homoerotic and heterosexual desire, in Charlotte Bronte's works. It focuses on the importance of Bronte's heroines' relationships with substitute mothers and the significance of the emotional bond that these women maintain while engaging in heterosexual relationships.

Charlotte Bronte and Female Desire also offers theoretical views of mothers, mothering, and female homoerotic desire through an examination of the works of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Nancy Chodorow."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Characters, Desire in literature, English Psychological fiction, Female friendship in literature, History, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Knowledge, Mothers and daughters in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychology, Sex in literature, Women, Women and literature, Women in literature, Bronte, charlotte, 1816-1855, Fiction, psychological, Friendship in literature, Knowledge and learning
Places: England
People: Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Time periods: 19th century