The Oxford Companion to the Brontes

The Oxford Companion to the Brontes

Subgenre: Literary, Bronte family, General - Subgenre: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Women Authors - Format: Hardcover - Author: Christine Alexander

By: Christine Alexander
From landscapes to Luddites and from Heathcliff to Stancliffe's Hotel, The Oxford Companion to the Brontes provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about the lives, works, and afterlives of the Brontes -- Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, and their father and brother -- all of whom were published writers. It is the first time so much information about the family has been gathered together in an accessible A-Z volume. The story of the Brontes has become a myth: three women living on the wild Yorkshire moors, writing works of strange genius. Charlotte Bronte claimed that her sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights was 'hewn in a wild workshop'. Inspired by a deep love of nature and an intensely private imagination it certainly was, but Emily's novel, like those of her sisters, is embedded in 19th-century society and debates. The Brontes lived in a thriving mill town. They read widely and eclectically, devouring the latest newspapers and journals. This Compan...
Oxford Univ Pr (03/18/2004)
ISBN: 0198662181
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Available Since: Feb 18, 2003
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