Bronte's Journey to the East: The Romantic Quest in Her Fiction
Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1982
The thesis tackles Charlotte Bronte's deep interest in the East as reflected in her four major novels, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette. Starting with her Juvenilia, the thesis traces the interest to its earliest roots and finds that it survives till the end of Bronte's career. However, the early fascination with the East takes a different form at mid career under the influence of Bronte's growing awareness of the victorian cultural values.
Robert Browning’s The Boy and the Angel is a poem in his early collection Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845). The poem is often overlooked in critics’ discussions of Browning’s religious views or…
This is an introduction to a new edition of Marmaduke Pickthall's novel The House of Islam