“We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to keep her passive, inactive and loveless for long stretches. Up to the point when Jane's love declares itself,… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the same person… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Nowhere is the sense of medium felt more strongly, even by the casual reader, than in a story about to end. For the novelist… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems to seek… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Discussions of the effects of serial publication of Victorian novels on their authors and readers1 usually draw attention to the author's peculiar opportunities for… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Indeed, and crucially so, the serial form took the control of the novel away from the reader and left him in an imagined space… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were simply the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps spurious, but… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Novels begin and end with, consist of, and indeed in one sense are nothing but voices. So reading is learning to listen sensitively, and… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to keep her… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are concerned with… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“The loudness of tone in Jane Eyre is undoubtedly effective in communicating tension and frustration, but the style does of course have its related… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
