Shirley - Couverture souple

Bronte, Charlotte

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140430954 ISBN 13 : 9780140430950

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1974

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue

The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement, the drama of Luddite machine-breaking, and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars.

But Charlotte Bront�s particular strength lies in exploring the hidden psychological drama of love, loss and the quest for identity. Personal and public agitation are brought together against the dramatic backdrop of her native Yorkshire. As always, Bront� challenges convention, exploring the limitations of social justice whilst telling not one but two love stories.

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Shirley is social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront�. It was Bront�'s second published novel after Jane Eyre. The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period of 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon - but distinctly male - name and would have been an unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name.

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