Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës by T. Eagleton (PDF)

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Myths of Power – Anniversary Edition sets out to interpret the fiction of the Brontë sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts, but by a close critical examination of the novels, to find in them a significant structure of ideas and values which related to the Brontës’ ambiguous situation within the class-system of their society. Its intention is to forge close relations between the novels, nineteenth-century ideology, and historical forces, in order to illuminate the novels themselves in a radically new perspective. When originally published in 1975 (second edition in 1988), it was the first full-length Marxist study of the Brontës and is now reissued to celebrate 30 years since its first publication. It includes a new Introduction by Terry Eagleton which reflects on the changes which have happened in Marxist literary criticism since 1988, and situates this reissue of the second edition in current debates.

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Editorial Reviews: Review Reviews of First Edition’…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 About the Author TERRY EAGLETON is the author of nearly thirty books, including Shakespeare and Society (1967), The New Left Church (1968), Exiles and Emigrés (1970), Myths of Power (1975, second edition 1988), Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976), Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), The Function of Criticism (1984), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), The Idea of Culture (2000), a memoir – The Gatekeeper (2002) – and his most recent, After Theory (2004). He is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Very good condition, as promised.

⭐Excellent study by Eagleton on Bronte’s world. This book focuses most of all on Charlotte’s four novels and the structure of her fiction. Just one very small part of this book (42 pages) is devoted to Wuthering Heighs and Anne Bronte in general. This book is useful, if you have to conduct a critical analysis on Charlotte… It is well-done and very comprehensive, even if the author uses a very complex academic language which is sometimes hard to understand, if you are not a native English speaker. Anyway, I advise you to buy it…, because if you are a university student who is studying English for advanced levels, like me, it is essential to own a wider range of specific terminology! 😀

⭐Wonderful to have this back in print. Marxist criticism may seem outmoded today but it is still on the A level syllabus so it is good to have access to a prime example of the genre. Eagleton is King of the Marxists. He argues his case so well that, occasionally, I even find myself agreeing with him.

⭐The quality of paper and cover are very inferior to the original

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