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The Bronte Myth

The Bronte Myth

Miller, Lucasta

Paperback

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1400078350
ISBN13: 9781400078356
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jan 4 2005
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
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 from domestic saints to sex-starved hysterics. In her bewitching metabiography, Lucasta Miller follows the twists and turns of the phenomenon of Bront-mania and rescues these three fiercely original geniuses from the distortions of legend.

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