1. A Feminist Approach to Wuthering Heights
After Sir Walter Scott made the novel popular worldwide, it was, for two decades, seen largely as a man's genre. Women writers were expected to write the kinds of novel which George Eliot was condemn in an essay as Silly Novels by Lady Novelists -the sub genres of romance, fantasy and sensation. ... It moves in a tragic circle from relative peace and harmony again. ... The Bronte sisters opened up new possibilities for the term of the English novel; at the same time they provided a basis for which psychological exploration became a key component in the development of the genre of the nove...
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