The education of Bronte's new Nouvelle Heloise in Shirley.
| Publisher | Rice University |
| Publication | Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0039-3657 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 2004-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Charlotte Bronte |
| Author | n/a | Elizabeth Gargano |
| Related Content | Type |
| Shirley | quickNotes |
| Shirley | Salem on Literature |
Charlotte Bronte's Shirley depicts two contrasting schoolroom feasts, one public, institutional, and sumptuous, the other private, impromptu, and austere. The first, the annual Whitsuntide banquet honoring supporters of the local parish school, involves a mock-heroic battle with religious dissenters and frames the protagonists Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone in a glare of publicity that illuminates their somewhat burdensome roles as defenders of church and property. The second school feast, a humble repast cooked over "the bright little school-room fire" in the room where Louis...
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