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The Bronte Myth

Lucasta Miller

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English
Vintage
01 February 2002
A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes.

A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes.

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

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   245g
ISBN:   9780099287148
ISBN 10:   0099287145
Pages:   336
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lucasta Miller read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has published research on Milton and worked as a literary journalist, reviewing for, among others, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the New Statesman, the TLS, the Economist and the Independent, of which she was Deputy Literary Editor. She is married to the tenor Ian Bostridge and lives in London. This is her first book.

Reviews for The Bronte Myth

A brilliant and riveting examination of the Bronte phenomenon Daily Mail 20020613 Brilliant...written with wit and relish, and packed with irresistible detail The Times 20020613 Sharply intelligent, original and witty... Literary history is seldom related with such a pleasant combination of brio and erudition Sunday Times 20020613 Crisply written and witty... Lucasta Miller...sends the reader straight back to the wonderful novels that inspired such hommages -- Michele Roberts Independent on Sunday A sharp-witted study in literary reputation... Miller supplies a deft and immaculately detailed tracing of the many 'constructions' of Charlotte Bronte -- Joanna Griffiths Observer


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