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Branderham, Rev. Jabes:


Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x


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the author of a printed sermon entitled Seventy Times Seven , over which Lockwood nods during his enforced night stay at Wuthering Heights, who subsequently appears in his dream delivering a sermon of comic tediousness and a Nonconformist obsession with the minutiae of sin. Satire on the Methodists and other Protestant sects is common in the Brontë novels, and goes back to their early writings. The satire here is of a verve and comic vigor that marks it off from Branwell’s heavy-handed philippic in “And the Weary are at Rest.” See also Bunting, Rev. Jabez ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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