1. { The Brontes & Critical Close Reading The Other Victorians

2.  Summary  Evidence  Stakes  Close Reading Critical Close Reading Assignment

3.  “The process of emergence, in such conditions, is then a constantly repeated, an always renewable, move beyond a phase of practical incorporation: usually made difficult by the fact that much incorporation looks like recognition, acknowledgement, and thus a form of acceptance. (RW, “D,R,E”, p. 124-5) Test case 1

4.  “The resources of the previously oppressed … are not lost or wiped out through the structures of oppression that helped to define them: they are preserved somewhere, in the past itself, with effects and traces that can be animated in a number of different contexts and terms in the present.” EG, The Nick of Time, 257 Test Case 2

6. { Size of a credit card 19 pages long Story of murder & insanity “Young Men’s Magazine No 2.” (Charlotte hand-copied the contents of periodicals onto hand-cut pages)

8. Map of Glass Town, Angria, by Branwell Bronte, 1831

9.  “Glass Town and Angrian Saga”  (Charlotte, Branwell)  Reconstructible, available in Oxford World’s Classics  Gondal Saga  Emily, Anne  Unreconstructible, only poetic fragments Sagas / Fictional Worlds

10.  “One day, in Autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS volume of verse in my sister Emily’s handwriting. Of course, I was not surprised, knowing that she could and did write verse: I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me – a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they also had a peculiar music – wild, melancholy, and elevating.”  “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell,” in Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, 1850. Charlotte Bronte: