Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Brontë 'biography' appearing. 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, from sensation-seeking penny-a-liners to meticulous works of sober scholarship. Each generation has rewritten the Brontës to reflect changing attitudes - towards the role of the woman writer, towards sexuality, towards the very concept of personailty.
A classic of modern literary biography, The Brontë Myth continues to give new life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture, while revealing as much about the impossible art of biography as it does about the sisters themselves.
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099287148
Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm