Bronte Myth

Miller, Lee

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Lucasta Miller explores Charlotte Brontë’s first attempts to mould her own and her sisters’ public image through to their many reincarnations at the hands of their biographers. The book reveals how hard it is to write an accurate biography.

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Publish Date: 03/01/2002

Description

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 life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture and Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontes themselves.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR

Additional information

Weight 245 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 21 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.809 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K