The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontė Wrote Her Masterpiece - Rilegato

Pfordresher, John

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ISBN 10: 0393248879 ISBN 13: 9780393248876

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2017

Riassunto

Why did Charlotte Brontė go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Brontė’s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it.Few people know how quickly Brontė composed Jane Eyre. Nor do many know that she wrote it during a devastating and anxious period in her life. Thwarted in her passionate, secret, and forbidden love for a married man, she found herself living in a home suddenly imperiled by the fact that her father, a minister, the sole support of the family, was on the brink of blindness. After his hasty operation, as she nursed him in an isolated apartment kept dark to help him heal his eyes, Brontė began writing Jane Eyre, an invigorating romance that, despite her own fears and sorrows, gives voice to a powerfully rebellious and ultimately optimistic woman’s spirit.The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontė knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels.By aligning his insights into Brontė’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontė’s brilliant, immersive genius.

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Recensione:

"The Secret History Of Jane Eyre cleverly intertwines art and life." --Mail on Sunday

"[Pfordresher] writes in the pleasing style of an English teacher with direct and assessable arguments that uncover surprising parallels...Devotees of the novel will thrill to find each ingredient parsed out so carefully for some revelatory analysis of their favorite author." --British Heritage

"Pfordresher's book is an attempt to take us behind this veil, to show us the mechanisms; a biography of a book, as it were." --London Review of Books

L'autore:

John Pfordresher is a professor of English at Georgetown University. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393248879
• ISBN 13: 9780393248876
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254