{"product_id":"the-bronte-myth-9781400078356","title":"The Bronte Myth","description":"In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, \u003cb\u003eThe Bront  Myth\u003c\/b\u003e shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront  became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen literary London learned that \u003cb\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/b\u003e had been written by young rural spinsters, the Bront s instantly became as famous as their shockingly passionate books. Soon after their deaths, their first biographer spun the sisters into a picturesque myth of family tragedies and Yorkshire moors. Ever since, these enigmatic figures have tempted generations of readers-Victorian, Freudian, feminist-to reinterpret them, casting them as everything from domestic saints to sex-starved hysterics. In her bewitching \"metabiography,\" Lucasta Miller follows the twists and turns of the phenomenon of Bront-mania and rescues these three fiercely original geniuses from the distortions of legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucasta Miller was educated at Oxford. She was the deputy literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Independent.\u003c\/i\u003e Her articles and critcism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556700721426,"sku":"9781400078356","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_408d1e5b-fe0a-4071-8ea7-c168c1d0b7cc.jpg?v=1731760931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bronte-myth-9781400078356","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}