The Bronte Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects - Brossura

Lutz, Deborah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393352706 ISBN 13: 9780393352702

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

Various possessions of the Brontė sisters help paint a picture of their world and their daily lives, including Charlotte's writing desk, which contained manuscripts and Emily's dog's collar, and Charlotte's bracelet, which contained the intertwined hairs of her departed sisters.

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Recensione:

"The Brontė Cabinet is full of illuminating and original insights, bringing aspects of the Brontės' lives into sharp focus for the first time."

--Literary Review

"Deborah Lutz's engaging new study proves that there is indeed room for fresh perspectives...All lovers of the Brontės should read this book."

--The Guardian

"Full of interest..."

--The Sunday Telegraph

"[Lutz's] book is most fascinating not when it looks at the relics, the walking sticks and tiny shoes, but at the great mass of writerly and literary paraphernalia associated with the Brontės; the paperiness of their lives."

--London Review of Books

"This is a fine book, rich, immersive and illuminating, glowing with the life of the Brontės and their wild genius."

--Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education

"[The Brontė Cabinet] is a dynamic, powerful and very accessible book, which abandons womb-to-tomb biography to look at the Brontės "through the 'eyes' of thread, paper, wood, jet, hair, bone, brass, fur, frond, leather, velvet, and ash"."

--The Times Literary Supplement

"In looking at the Brontės through their most precious possessions, Lutz lets us sneak a peek at their inner lives as well as their outer ones, in a sympathetic and informative way."

--The Independent

"...Lutz has found a way of teasing out some genuinely fresh insights into a subject that might otherwise feel as though it has been done to death."

--Mail on Sunday

L'autore:

Deborah Lutz's books include Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. The Thruston B. Morton Professor of English at the University of Louisville, she lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and Brooklyn, New York.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393352706
• ISBN 13: 9780393352702
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310