Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality

Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0521335876
ISBN-13 : 9780521335874
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Book Synopsis Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality by : Maynard

Download or read book Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality written by Maynard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book raises fundamental questions about our understanding of Victorian sexuality. Charlotte Brontë was no 'other Victorian' living out a secret life in a sexual underworld, but she did centre her life's work on exploring the complexities of our sexual nature. John Maynard shows how Brontë's early stories and novelettes, written from her teens to young maturity for a private audience of her sisters and brother, deal openly with a 'world below' of consuming passion, adultery, seduction, promiscuity, frigidity and incest. He traces how these themes are incorporated into Brontë's mature published work, where her psychological insight into the complexities of sexual need finds its consummate expression. Brontë's mature novels, especially Jane Eyre and Villette offer an intensely felt but finely realised vision of sexual awakening. They are however, deeply aware of the difficulties that beset sexual experience. Unlike a number of studies, this book stresses the insight, achievement and artistic mastery of Charlotte Brontë, who still challenges us to comprehend the subtleties and complexities of her impressively articulated discourse on sexuality.


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