The Brontes and Religion

This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Bronts. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century Marianne Thormhlen shows how the Bronts'' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts the book examines denominations doctrines ethics and clerics in the Bronts'' work. Lucid and vigorously written it will open up new perspectives for Bront specialists and enthusiasts alike on a fundamental aspect of the novels greatly neglected in recent decades.