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Availability:In StockContributor:Lucasta MillerPublish date:2005-01-04Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400078356ISBN-10:1400078350UPC:9781400078356Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women Authors, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.04 x 5.22 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCRYR0ZFSJ
In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bront Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront 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 Bront s 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400078356ISBN-10:1400078350UPC:9781400078356Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women Authors, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.04 x 5.22 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCRYR0ZFSJ
Lucasta Miller was educated at Oxford. She was the deputy literary editor of The Independent. Her articles and critcism have appeared in The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, and The Sunday Telegraph.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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