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The Bronte Myth
Lucasta Miller
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Description for The Bronte Myth
Paperback. Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian psychobiographies, from plays, films and ballets to tourist brochures and images on tea-towels. This work aims to offer a fresh life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, facsimiles, , portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontës.
Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian pyschobiographies, from plays, films and ballets to tourist brochures and images on tea-towels, from sensation-seeking penny-a-liners to meticulous works of sober scholarship. Each generation has rewritten the Brontes to reflect changing attitudes - towards the role of the woman writer, towards sexuality, towards the very concept of personality.
The Bronte Myth gives vigorous new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099287148
SKU
V9780099287148
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About Lucasta Miller
Lucasta Miller is a biographer and critic, whose articles have appeared in a wide number of publications, especially the Guardian. She is the author of two previous books on nineteenth-century literature, The Brontë Myth and L.E.L.: the Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron', and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at University College, London and a Royal ... Read more
Reviews for The Bronte Myth
A brilliant and riveting examination of the Bronte phenomenon
Daily Mail
Written with wit and relish, and packed with irresistible detail
The Times
Literary history is seldom related with such a pleasant combination of brio and erudition
Sunday Times
Crisply written and witty - Lucasta Miller sends the reader straight back to the wonderful ... Read more
Daily Mail
Written with wit and relish, and packed with irresistible detail
The Times
Literary history is seldom related with such a pleasant combination of brio and erudition
Sunday Times
Crisply written and witty - Lucasta Miller sends the reader straight back to the wonderful ... Read more