Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
Autor Lyndall Gordonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2008
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.
'An exemplary biography' Jan Marsh, New Statesman
'Brilliant and powerful... Gordon brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte's creative genius' Mark Bostridge, TES
'Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times
'Magnificent... Gordon's best book and the best thing about Charlotte Bronte yet' Fiona MacCarthy, Observer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781844084722
ISBN-10: 1844084728
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: Section: 16, b/w pix
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1844084728
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: Section: 16, b/w pix
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
An exemplary biography: brisk but attentive to all nuance; lucid and open in its judgements; wearing its learning lightly but visibly
Brilliant and powerful . . . [Gordon] brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte's creative genius . . . Bronte biography has, at last, come of age
Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight, [Gordon's] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte's life, work, and the flow between the two . . . It is also a deeply moving story
A magnificent biography focusing on the gaps and silences in Charlotte Brontë's emotionally turbulent life. This is Gordon's best book and the best thing about Charlotte Brontë yet
A book full of brilliant suggestions which do engage our attention and interest from the first page to the last
Lyndall Gordon approaches her subject with the imagination of the true critic
A classic biography . . . which combines scholarship with popular appeal
This is by far the most interesting portrait of Charlotte that I have read: those who know little of the Brontës will find it riveting; for those who know more, it is compulsive
Lyndall Gordon has described perfectly - everywhere she has the most dextrous mastery over the masses of material - the long climb that had to be made from the Brontës' elf-lit country of their childhood...to the 'real' world of Charlotte's fiction...found Lyndall Gordon's portraits of [George] Smith [CB's publisher] and his mother...as vivid and masterly as Charlotte's own. She is convincing and deeply interesting about the last phase of Charlotte's life, her marriage
Vivid, critical, sensitive
What is new and interesting in this book, which is frequently brilliant and insightful and always perceptive in its discussion of the texts themselves, is Lyndall Gordon's view of Charlotte as a secret subversive who...carried on a covert existence of her own
Lyndall Gordon is an inspired and unconventional biographer who convincingly rescues Charlotte from the well-meaning but unimaginative Mrs Gaskell
Presents a radically new picture of [Charlotte Bronte]...In this revealing new portrait, Charlotte emerges as determined, courageous, and full of "a secret fire"
Lyndall Gordon writes almost as vividly as her subject...There's unlikely to be a better book about the author of Jane Eyre
Wonderfully original readings of the work itself and a subtle tracing of the complicated path through which the writer succeeded in transmuting the difficult material of life to art
An essential companion...is not intended as the straightforward biographical narrative, but as an interpretation of "the unseen space" in Charlotte's life (and by implication the unseen spaces in all writers)...brilliant and convincing
A crisp study of a fascinating subject
The contradictions in CB's life are not only fully chronicled in Lyndall Gordon's splendid new biography, but also gracefully explicated to give the reader a vivid and emotionally detailed portrait of the novelist and her work
A breathtaking, energetic and bold work
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.
'Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight, [Gordon's] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte's life, work, and the flow between the two . . . It is also a deeply moving story' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times
Brilliant and powerful . . . [Gordon] brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte's creative genius . . . Bronte biography has, at last, come of age
Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight, [Gordon's] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte's life, work, and the flow between the two . . . It is also a deeply moving story
A magnificent biography focusing on the gaps and silences in Charlotte Brontë's emotionally turbulent life. This is Gordon's best book and the best thing about Charlotte Brontë yet
A book full of brilliant suggestions which do engage our attention and interest from the first page to the last
Lyndall Gordon approaches her subject with the imagination of the true critic
A classic biography . . . which combines scholarship with popular appeal
This is by far the most interesting portrait of Charlotte that I have read: those who know little of the Brontës will find it riveting; for those who know more, it is compulsive
Lyndall Gordon has described perfectly - everywhere she has the most dextrous mastery over the masses of material - the long climb that had to be made from the Brontës' elf-lit country of their childhood...to the 'real' world of Charlotte's fiction...found Lyndall Gordon's portraits of [George] Smith [CB's publisher] and his mother...as vivid and masterly as Charlotte's own. She is convincing and deeply interesting about the last phase of Charlotte's life, her marriage
Vivid, critical, sensitive
What is new and interesting in this book, which is frequently brilliant and insightful and always perceptive in its discussion of the texts themselves, is Lyndall Gordon's view of Charlotte as a secret subversive who...carried on a covert existence of her own
Lyndall Gordon is an inspired and unconventional biographer who convincingly rescues Charlotte from the well-meaning but unimaginative Mrs Gaskell
Presents a radically new picture of [Charlotte Bronte]...In this revealing new portrait, Charlotte emerges as determined, courageous, and full of "a secret fire"
Lyndall Gordon writes almost as vividly as her subject...There's unlikely to be a better book about the author of Jane Eyre
Wonderfully original readings of the work itself and a subtle tracing of the complicated path through which the writer succeeded in transmuting the difficult material of life to art
An essential companion...is not intended as the straightforward biographical narrative, but as an interpretation of "the unseen space" in Charlotte's life (and by implication the unseen spaces in all writers)...brilliant and convincing
A crisp study of a fascinating subject
The contradictions in CB's life are not only fully chronicled in Lyndall Gordon's splendid new biography, but also gracefully explicated to give the reader a vivid and emotionally detailed portrait of the novelist and her work
A breathtaking, energetic and bold work
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.
'Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight, [Gordon's] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte's life, work, and the flow between the two . . . It is also a deeply moving story' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times