Bronte Myth

Name: Bronte Myth
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ISBN: 9781400078356

ISBN-10: 1400078350

ISBN-13: 9781400078356

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lucasta Miller

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In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronté Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronté became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras. When literary London learned that Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights had been written by young rural spinsters, the Brontés instantly became as famous as their shockingly passionate books. Soon after their deaths, their first biographer spun the sisters into a picturesque myth of family tragedies and Yorkshire moors. Ever since, these enigmatic figures have tempted generations of readers–Victorian, Freudian, feminist–to reinterpret them, casting them as everything…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.92" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments



To Be for Ever Known



Poor Miss Bronte



Life into Lieterature



The Angel in the House



Secrets and Psychobiography



Fiction and Feminism



Interpreting Emily



A Woman Worthy of Being Avoided



The Mystic of the Moors


Notes


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Index