![]() ![]() ![]() Read more 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. 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. 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. In The Life of Charlotte Bront, Elizabeth Gaskell attempts to weave myth and legend around Charlotte and her surroundings, creating a perfect Angel in the. ![]() Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontës. ![]() Num Pages: 336 pages, facsimiles,, portraits. This work aims to offer a fresh life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian psychobiographies, from plays, films and ballets to tourist brochures and images on tea-towels. Description for The Bronte Myth Paperback. ![]()
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