This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen's lucid and vigorous book shows how the Brontës' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels.
The first full-length study of the topic, drawing on nineteenth-century doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical debates.
