THE BRONTE MYTH

Book ID/图书代码： 00500005B03518

English Summary/英文概要： A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontës.

Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte ’biography’ appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian pyschobiographies, 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 Brontes to reflect changing attitudes - towards the role of the woman writer, towards sexuality, towards the very concept of personality.

The Bronte Myth gives vigorous new life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture and Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontes themselves.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当文学界得知《简·爱》《呼啸山庄》与《威尔德菲尔庄园的房客》的三位作者是少不更事的乡村女孩，勃朗特三姐妹立时成为了家喻户晓的人物。就在三姐妹去世后不久的一八五七年，夏洛蒂的第一位传记作者伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔便为她们塑造出以家族悲剧为核心、以约克郡荒原为背景的传奇生平。自那时起，几乎每年都有某种有关勃朗特的“传记”问世。从维多利亚时代的行为指南到运用弗洛伊理论的心理传记，从戏剧、电影和芭蕾舞到游客指南以及印刷在茶巾上的图案，从耸人听闻的小说到细致严谨的学术作品——每个时代的人们都用各自的方式不断重塑着勃朗特三姐妹。

在《勃朗特迷思》这部现代文学传记的经典作品中，卢卡丝塔·米勒将传记、文学批评和思想史精彩地结合在一起，向我们展示了勃朗特三姐妹成为文化偶像的曲折历程。这部“元传记”不断革新着我们对于英国历史上最负盛名的文学家族和其所处文化背景的理解，不仅展示了勃朗特家族的生平，还揭示了传记艺术的不确定性。(DB)

Awards/获奖情况：A brilliant and riveting examination of the Bronte phenomenon ― Daily Mail Published On: 2002-06-13

Written with wit and relish, and packed with irresistible detail ― The Times Published On: 2002-06-13

Literary history is seldom related with such a pleasant combination of brio and erudition ― Sunday Times Published On: 2002-06-13

Crisply written and witty - Lucasta Miller sends the reader straight back to the wonderful novels that inspired such hommages ― Independent on Sunday

A sharp-witted study in literary reputation - Miller supplies a deft and immaculately detailed tracing of the many ’constructions’ of Charlotte Bronte ― Observer

Miller’s unputdownable and erudite book has not only left us with a clear picture and greater understanding of the Brontes, but tells us a lot about ourselves too ― Daily Mail

About the Author/作者介绍： 卢卡丝塔·米勒，英国文学评论家，本科受教于牛津大学玛格丽特夫人学堂，博士毕业于东安格利亚大学，曾任《独立报》文学副编、曼布克奖评委，为《卫报》《泰晤士报》《经济学人》撰写过大量文学评论文章，并在勃朗特三姐妹研究领域著述颇丰。她最近出版的作品包括《L.E.L.》，该书研究被遗忘的十九世纪英国女诗人利蒂希娅·伊丽莎白·兰登。

Lucasta Miller is a biographer and critic, whose articles have appeared in a wide number of publications, especially the Guardian. She is the author of two previous books on nineteenth-century literature, The Brontë Myth and L.E.L.: the Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the ’Female Byron’, and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at University College, London and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.

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