Brontë critics

Question 1

Woolf, reading and looking quote

Answer 1

‘Is there not an open window on the right hand of the bookcase. How delightful to stop reading and look out1

Question 2

Janet Gezari internal and external elements of Jane’s inner life

Answer 2

‘blurring of the boundaries between inner and outer worlds has been a regular element of the novel’s representation of Jane’s state of mind

Question 3

Garrett Stewart describes changes in novel setting with a parallel of the reader holding the novel in situation

Answer 3

‘locates in turn merely the unpictured site - or, more abstractly yet, just the general condition - of domestic reading’

Question 4

Janet Gezari describes critical history of Bronte scholarship

Answer 4

‘”romantic tradition of the Brontes” with its emphasis on the bleakness of the Yorkshire moors and unrequited love’