Isn't it great when a novel grabs you so much and gets you so much into the story that you sort of lose your ground and start seeing and understanding things differently from what you would in real life?
This is what Victoria A. Brownworth says in her
Mercury News review of Anita Brookner's
Leaving Home. And of course she doesn't forget that if you ever get that aforementioned feeling it is by reading Wuthering Heights:
And yet, one would no more think, ``Gee, a prescription for depression or social anxiety disorder would really help this girl,'' when reading a Brookner fiction than one would when reading Emily Dickinson or Emily Brontë. Psychotropics might help the character but would utterly spoil the plot.Do you think some psychiatrist ever studied the characters in Wuthering Heights from a realistic, objective point of view? Just imagine the conclusions!
Categories: In_the_News, Fiction, Emily_Brontë
Yes, it would be interesting to here the point of view of a psychiatrist.
ReplyDeleteAs I am a rather new reader of the
Bronte novels and haven't read any whole biography about the sisters yet, just parts and some articles, I would like to have some information about the writer Edward Chitham, who has written so many books about the Bronte sisters. Who is he?
As good as Edward Chitham might be, I wouldn't advise you to read one bio of his first thing. I'd start with a more straightforwardone, one that establishes the facts as they are. EC jumps to conclusions that might get you a little lost if you still don't have a firm footing.
ReplyDeleteThe huge The Brontës by Juliet Barker is the first starting point, I think - and easier to find then any other.
Cristina.
OK, thanks for the advice!
ReplyDeleteI can't find so much information about Edward Chitham on the Net, could you tell me a little about him? I read he is the now living person who knows most about the Brontes.
Eva
I don't know much about EC either. Apparently he defines himself as an Anne person. He has bios on Emily and Anne, a book on Wuthering Heights, a Brontë Family Chronology. He's written a couple of books with Tom Winnifrith: Brontë Facts & Brontë Problems and a bio on Charlotte.
ReplyDeleteThat's basically what I know about him off the top of my head.