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T1 Syrie James’s The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë: A Neo-Victorian Biofiction of Pride and Prejudice
A1 Llorens Cubedo, Dídac
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB Syrie James’s The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë (2009) is a first-person narrative of the last ten years of the Victorian novelist’s life. It is a neo-Victorian celebrity biofiction, tending to the hagiographic. It draws on various biographies of Brontë, on her letters and on her autobiographical novels. Interestingly, it also evokes Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a novel that Brontë famously disliked. The present article considers Secret Diaries within the parameters of neo-Victorian biofiction; it identifies parallelisms with Austen’s classic; it reassesses the relationship between Brontë and Austen; and, in doing all this, shows that the chronological scope of Neo-Victorianism is broad.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58191
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58191
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No. 43 (2022) pags. 63-85
DS UVaDOC
RD 29-may-2024