The Bront?s as Gothic Writers: The Afflicted Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781837722525)

The first full-length study of the Bront?s as Gothic writers.

This book discusses how the Gothic mode productively afflicted the writings of the Bront? sisters. The nostalgic nature of Gothic provided the Bront?s with a means of creatively exploring their sense of loss and dislocation. The Gothicness of the Bront?s' imaginations complements the deep influence of Romanticism on their writing; both modes treat the past with reverence. Ultimately, the Gothic identity of the Bront?s consists not in terror but in the desire to bring the dead back to life. Of course, this desire is itself a form of terror, terror at living in a world from which we are cut off from those that have gone before.

Author: James Thomas Quinnell
ISBN-10: 1837722528
ISBN-13: 9781837722525
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2025
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs