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In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronte Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte 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 Bronte 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.

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• Full title: The Bronte Myth
• Author: Lucasta Miller
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781400078356
• ISBN: 1400078350
• ID: 12051189
• Publisher: ANCHOR
• Weight: 331 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 133 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: January 2005

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