The Brontës and Religion Thormählen Hardback Cambridge University Press

The Bronts and ReligionAuthor(s): Marianne Thormhlen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521661553, 978-0521661553\nSynopsis\nThis is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Bronts. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormhlen shows how the Bronts' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Bronts. The analyses of the novels clarify the constant interplay of human and Divine love in the development of the novels. While demonstrating that the Bronts' fiction usually reflects the basic tenets of Evangelical Anglicanism, the book emphasises the characteristic spiritual freedom and audacity of the Bronts. Lucid and vigorously written, it will open up ne.