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'...a valuable book for anyone wanting to move beyond critical pieties to an understanding of the relation between the Brontës' work and their society. Dr Eagleton asks questions which ought be asked.' - Juliet Dusinberre, Notes and Queries
'...this is a book of real stature, of cogent and steely argument and analysis...'
Adrian Poole, Cambridge Review
'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 Brontës - 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 and re-shape the way in which we look at them. He takes very familiar texts and roughs them up. He calls it 'reading against the grain'. ' - Peter Widdowson, The Guardian
'He has written wonderfully on the likes of Tennyson, Hardy, Dickens and the Brontës. He has taken the best of that old Cambridge tradition of close reading of the text, but made it socially and politically relevant. I saw him lecture on Wuthering Heights and he was very much on the side of Heathcliff.But mostly he showed that you could take a text that a whole generation of critics had abstracted from the social history of which it was part, and talk about it in terms of the tensions and conflicts which were still going on in the 1970s.' - Stephen Reagan, The Guardian, 2002
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Myths of Power
Book Subtitle: A Marxist Study of the Brontës
Authors: Terry Eagleton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509726
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4697-3Published: 21 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4698-0Published: 24 March 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50972-6Published: 21 March 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 148
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Economic History