The Bronte Sisters' Quarrel: A Social Discourse Within the Bronte Novels

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This study challenges the popularly accepted view that the Bronte sisters shared in common many assumptions and beliefs. In truth, the Brontes are individual writers with differing ideologies who engage each other, within their work, in a discourse about God, love and life in relationship to the Woman Question. These diverse political, economical and philosophical beliefs emerge as a doctrinal argument within their novels. Emily and Anne begin the discourse with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. Next, Charlotte, in writing Jane Eyre, presents her own views and attempts to correct what she feels are incorrect impressions left by these novels; and then Anne responds to Emily and Charlotte in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Both Charlotte and Anne were concerned about the ramifications of Emily's ideology of power, order and conflict. This ideology is a coherent philosophy embedded within the text Wuthering Heights as an evolutionary doctrine of opposition. She ends her text with a progeny w

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