Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived - Hardcover

Moglen, Helene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299101401 ISBN 13: 9780299101404

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984

Synopsis

The lives of literary figures have always provided a source of fascination; the tragic life of Charlotte Brontė is no different. In this interpretive critical biography, Helene Moglen “takes for granted earlier, exhaustive studies” done on Brontė to produce an analysis that incorporates not only the facts of her life, but also their influence upon her works. Through her study, Moglen seeks to examine the two dimensions that are essential to any study of Brontė: the life she lived and the life she created within the pages of fiction.

By examining the paradoxical personal tragedy and artistic fulfillment that made up Charlotte Brontė’s life, Helen Moglen shows the evolution of Brontė’s feminism. Through Brontė’s growth, Moglen then is able to “explore explicitly formations of the modern female psyche.” Considered to be a major biography fusing together the making of literature and the formation of personality, Moglen offers a new critical insight into Brontė’s struggle for self-definition and how it can be reflected through the lives of readers more than a century later.

About this title

About the Author:

Helene Moglen is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0299101401
• ISBN 13: 9780299101404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256