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Page 120
... Bronte's figurative linking of bed with creativity , her metaphors of flowing and coiling , her reference to spells , opium , delicious sensations , and loss of consciousness , represent the ecstasy of release . Bronte's imagi- native ...
... Bronte's figurative linking of bed with creativity , her metaphors of flowing and coiling , her reference to spells , opium , delicious sensations , and loss of consciousness , represent the ecstasy of release . Bronte's imagi- native ...
Page 132
... Bronte's novels has been called by many critics " masochistic . " Terry Eagleton and Helene Moglen , for example , both define the sexual rela- tionships in Bronte's novels as " sadomasochistic . " 27 Eagleton states pro- vocatively ...
... Bronte's novels has been called by many critics " masochistic . " Terry Eagleton and Helene Moglen , for example , both define the sexual rela- tionships in Bronte's novels as " sadomasochistic . " 27 Eagleton states pro- vocatively ...
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... Bronte's first father- supplement acted out with Lydia Robinson the sexual temptation Charlotte herself so perseverantly resisted with M. Héger . In her letters after Branwell's return to Haworth , Bronte punished him for daring to ...
... Bronte's first father- supplement acted out with Lydia Robinson the sexual temptation Charlotte herself so perseverantly resisted with M. Héger . In her letters after Branwell's return to Haworth , Bronte punished him for daring to ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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