Last Things

• Reinstates Emily Brontë's poems at the heart of Romantic and Victorian concerns
• Includes close readings of individual poems and poetical fragments
• Examines the progress Emily Brontë made from the beginning of her career as a poet to its end
• Focuses on her writing practice and her motives for writing poetry

Readership: Scholars, students, and fans of the Brontës, as well as those interested in Victorian poetry and women's writing generally.

Janet Gezari, Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English, Connecticut College

"Janet Gezari's book has received well-deserved critical acclaim." - Debra San, Essays in Criticism

"the most sensitive, sympathetic, discriminating account of the work to date... powerful, persuasive" - Beth Newman, Review of English Studies

Introduction: And First
1: Last Things
2: Fathoming 'Remembrance'
3: Outcomes and Endings
4: Fragments
5: The First Last Thing
6: Posthumous Brontë