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Paperback / softback. New. By the age of eight, Charlotte Bronte had lost first her mother and then her two older sisters. Later, in a second wave of deaths, her brother and two younger sisters died, leaving her a sole survivor. With subtlety and imagination, Robert Keefe examines Bronte's works as the creative response to these losses, particularly the loss of her mother. Terrified and yet fascinated by death, struggling with guilt, remorse, and a deep sense of rejection, Charlotte Bronte found in art a way to come to terms with death through its symbolic reenactment. In her earlier writings she created a fictional world marked by devices that allow her to control or deny death. In her later works these mechanisms evolved into mature expressions of a profound psychological reality. Bronte's preoccupation with death is seen in her fiction in the recurring patterns of separation and exile. Keefe traces the development of these motifs in the juvenilia and the four novels: The Professor,…
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- Title Charlotte Brontë's World of Death
- Author Robert Keefe
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- Pages 246
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Texas Press
- Date 2014-08
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780292768918
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- Cultural Region: British
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