Earlier this year I read a book about the Brontes from the perspective of a local man walking where they walked, and linking the places they lived, and although it wasn't a great book it gave me a more useful perspective than any amount of literary criticism, for Emily and Anne especially (Charlotte's work is more amenable to conventional analysis now, even though she was pushing boundaries at the time). Maybe because the way people behave in classic literature is often inexplicable except by shrugging shoulders and admitting that characters can be obviously very human while behaving as outliers? Or perhaps I approach everything on foot because I am extremely pedestrian, lol.