The Brontës as Gothic Writers: The Afflicted Imagination

By James Thomas Quinnell

The first full-length study of the Bront s as Gothic writers.

This book discusses how the Gothic mode productively afflicted the writings of the Bront sisters. The nostalgic nature of Gothic provided the Bront s with a means of creatively exploring their sense of loss and dislocation. The Gothicness of the Bront s' imaginations complements the deep influence of Romanticism on their writing; both modes treat the past with reverence. Ultimately, the Gothic identity of the Bront s consists not in terror but in the desire to bring the dead back to life. Of course, this desire is itself a form of terror, terror at living in a world from which we are cut off from those that have gone before.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837722528
• ISBN13: 9781837722525
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"