Holy Ghosts: The Male Muses of Emily and Charlotte Bronte

(1993)
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Writing from a feminist perspective, the author of this study describes how Charlotte and Emily Bronte transformed the meaning of the muse that inspired the Romantic poets by transforming its gender. She describes how the Bronte sisters appropriated the male muse in differing ways.

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