The Bronte Myth by Miller, Lucasta

The Bronte Myth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400078356)

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The Bronte Myth by Miller, Lucasta

The Bronte Myth

$19.00
The Bronte Myth by Miller, Lucasta

The Bronte Myth

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Lucasta Miller
ISBN-10: 1400078350
ISBN-13: 9781400078356
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2005
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 05/01/2005 pg. 40
New York Times 02/06/2005 pg. 26
By Lucasta Miller
By Lucasta Miller
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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.

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