Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality

by John Maynard and Maynard

Book Overview

This book raises fundamental questions about our understanding of Victorian sexuality. Charlotte Bront 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 Bront '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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521335876
• ISBN13: 9780521335874
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"