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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece
John Pfordresher
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Description for The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.
In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Bronte wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it. What few people knew then-and even fewer know today-was that as she tended her invalid father and held the family together, Bronte was re-imagining her experiences as a governess, her fears for her dissolute brother and her devastating passion for a married man into an immersive, brilliant novel. By aligning the details of Bronte's life with the timeless characters and plot of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature's most ... Read more
In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Bronte wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it. What few people knew then-and even fewer know today-was that as she tended her invalid father and held the family together, Bronte was re-imagining her experiences as a governess, her fears for her dissolute brother and her devastating passion for a married man into an immersive, brilliant novel. By aligning the details of Bronte's life with the timeless characters and plot of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature's most ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393248876
SKU
V9780393248876
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About John Pfordresher
John Pfordresher is a professor of English at Georgetown University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Reviews for The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece
With sensitivity and grace, this new look into the autobiographical sources of Jane Eyre wonderfully enlarges our understanding of the novel by revealing how much it was shaped by the private aspirations and sorrows of Charlotte Bronte, a romantic figure who left traces of her own life on almost every page of her fiction.
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