Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal
Selected Early Writings
'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.'In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, whose feuds, alliances, and love affairs weave an intricate web of social and political intrigue in imaginary colonial lands in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The writings of Glass Town,Angria, and Gondal are youthful experiments in imitation and parody, wild romance and…
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Weitere Autoren: Alexander, Christine (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-153987-9
- EAN: 9780191539879
- Produktnummer: 13913099
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'916 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 map; three MS facsimile pages
Über den Autor
Christine Alexander is co-author (with Margaret Smith) of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (2003). Her critical study on The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë (1983) won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and she has edited a multi-volume Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë (1987, 1991, vol. 3 forthcoming).
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