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    Emily Bronte, A Life

    by Deborah Lutz ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceDeborah Lutz compellingly captures Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable Wuthering Heights, with deep insight and glorious prose.**Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering ... Read more

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  • The Brontë Cabinet

    Three Lives in Nine Objects

    by Deborah Lutz ...
    "Yields up all sorts of fascinating new angles on the famous siblings…Illuminating." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh AirIn this unique and lovingly detailed biography, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the fascinating lives of the Brontës through the things they wore, stitched, and inscribed. Lutz immerses readers in a nuanced re-creation of the sisters’ days while moving us ... Read more

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  • Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism

    Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism

    by Deborah Lutz ...
    A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.In 1860s London, two loosely overlapping groups of bohemians—the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes—challenged the buttoned-up Victorian propriety to promote erotic freedom and expression. Sensually attuned and politically radical, they were among the most influential thinkers ... Read more

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  • Victorian Paper Art and Craft

    Writers and Their Materials

    by Deborah Lutz ...
    This book shows how authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and of reading, drawing, and handicraft) for inspiration and creative composition. In doing so, it reshapes the sensory history of working on and with paper. These activities were many and varied: Charlotte Brontë composed poems and doodled in the margins of school books, George Eliot recorded writing ideas on ... Read more

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  • Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

    by Deborah Lutz ...
    Series Book 96 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with the body and death, a way of understanding absence through its materials, which is less widely felt today. Deborah Lutz analyzes relic culture as an affirmation that objects held memories and told ... Read more

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  • Persuasion

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    Published after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, Persuasion is poignant and passionate story of love, disappointment, loss, and redemption.Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is resigned to an unhappy fate and forced to move with her family to humbler lodgings when an old, lost love reenters her life.The handsome young naval officer, whose marriage proposal she was persuaded to reject seven years prior, ... Read more

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