Charlotte Bront Revisited [Paperback]

Charlotte Bronte Revisited looks again at Charlotte Brontë's life and work through 21st-century eyes. Discover her private world of convention, rebellion, and imagination, and how they shaped her life, writing, and obsessions—including the paranormal, nature, feminism and politics. 

Everybody knows Charlotte Brontë. World-famous for her novelJane Eyre,she's a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte?

This is a celebration of all things Charlotte Brontë, and emphatically shows why her writing was so far ahead of its time, and is as relevant today as ever.

Charlotte is often seen as a writer of realism. She famously had a pop at the unrealistically romanticized neatness of Jane Austens novels, likening them to a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden with neat borders and delicate flowers. And thats not even the worst bit (I think its fair to say that Charlotte misunderstood Austen by taking her at face value and therefore failing to see her intrinsic irony). Charlotte preferred a rougher approach that reflected the reality of peoples actual lives. But her work as an adult, like Jane Eyre and Shirley, is also heavily influenced by her early dalliance with the supernatural.

During her childhood and teenage years, Charlotte honed her narrative technique by creating the imaginary worlds of the Glass Town Federation and the kingdom of Angria. Alongside Branwell (and initially with Emily and Anne before they Eliciting from the gloom some haloed face... (from Jane Eyre). formed their own offshoot realm of Gondal), Charlotte wrote about a fictional African empire founded on civil war, conflict, sexual desire and Gothic romance. It was a world that continued to consume her imagination well into her twenties.

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