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The Brontes (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics)

By Patricia Ingham

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9780192840356, 9781429492140, 0192840355, 019953666X, 9780199536665
Open Library ID
OL17192435M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1746200 bytes)
Pages
304\294
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The extraordinary creativity of the Bront? sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around them, and their writing, from the juvenilia to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, reflects the preoccupations of the age in which they lived. Their novels, which so shocked their contemporaries, address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders. As well as examining these connections, Ingham also shows how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century. The Bront"s is a lively, accessible, and critically topical exploration of the novels of the three sisters, and includes a chronology of the Bront?s, websites, illustrations, a comprehensive index, and suggestions for further reading.

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