With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
1 week ago
When a reader is brought up short five of six times per page by finding words where he least expected them, the result must be a sense of disquiet.
Equally misleading, and perhaps more serious, is Peters' general refusal to distinguish between the art and the life: her tendency to employ material from the novels and juvenilia as if it were factual biographical evidence. (...)A simplistic psychological approach permits this impressionistic treatment of "real people" and fictional characters. Peters does not venture beneath the surface of her subjects' psyches any more than she has to.
Margot Peters' Unquiet Soul (1975) succeeds where Moglen fails because Peters recognizes both the feminist, pyschosexual implications of Charlotte's fate and the very personal, unique elements of her life. Peters, indeed, is the tme descendent of Mrs. Gaskell, retaining her predecessor's affection and understanding for her subject while using the insights to be gained from reassessing Charlotte's life from a modern point of view.
Charlotte Brontë's life and art were both an eloquent protest against the cruel and frustrating limitations imposed upon women and a triumph over them. Seen from this angle, the facts of her life fall into a new pattern, and it is this pattern that these pages propose to explore.
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