Deborah Lutz. (2015). The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects. W. W. Norton & Company.

Deborah Lutz. 2015. The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects. W. W. Norton & Company.

Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Deborah Lutz. The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

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   • bioText: Deborah Lutz is the Thruston B. Morton Endowed Chair of English at the University of Louisville. She has published four books, most recently The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects and Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture. She is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Jane Eyre and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
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"Yields up all sorts of fascinating new angles on the famous siblings...Illuminating." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

In 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 chronologically through their lives. From the miniature books they made as children to the walking sticks they carried on hikes on the moors, each possession opens a window onto the sisters' world, their beloved fiction, and the Victorian era.

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   • source: Rebecca Steinitz;Boston Globe
   • content: Exponentially raise[s] the Brontëan stakes.... The Brontë Cabinet makes a powerful case for the value of the material world, personally and culturally, then and now.
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   • source: Tess Taylor;Christian Science Monitor
   • content: [Lutz] leaps between objects and disciples to craft an unusual cultural history—not just about a family of authors but about reading itself.... With deft care, Lutz weaves her authors back into their daily contexts, and from there, the stories they crafted speak even more urgently across time.
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   • source: Danny Heitman;Wall Street Journal
   • content: [Virginia] Woolf probably would have liked The Bronte Cabinet.... Lutz's insights...prove fascinating.
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   • source: Maureen Corrigan;Fresh Air
   • content: The Brontë Cabinet yields up all sorts of fascinating new angles on the famous siblings...illuminating.
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   • source: Patricia Hagen;Minneapolis Star Tribune
   • content: Brontë aficionados will enjoy the deft interweaving of artifact, biography and literature, but the greatest pleasure is the expanding chain of associations Lutz creates in each chapter.... The Brontë Cabinet is an engaging read for fans of the Brontë sisters, of course, but also anyone interested in material culture, the Victorian era and the history of everyday lives—especially women's lives.
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   • source: Rachel Trethewey;The Independent [UK]
   • content: Fresh and enlightening...this book is an exceptionally intimate study of the three sisters; through it we look into the most private corners of the parsonage.... Faultlessly researched and evocatively written.
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   • source: Lucasta Miller;The Guardian (UK)
   • content: Deborah Lutz's engaging new study...allows us to feel the texture of the Brontës' experience.... She pulls off the hardest trick in literary biography: to make us feel that we know the subjects intimately, and, simultaneously, to make the familiar strange.
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   • source: Samantha Ellis;Times Literary Supplement
   • content: [Lutz] is both fabulously erudite and refreshingly willing to tackle the trashier end of the literary spectrum. . . . Her incisive, beguiling prose . . . [and] frankness about her own fascination . . . makes this wonderfully fresh and insightful biography simultaneously an act of resurrection and of mourning.
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     January 12, 2015
     Applying “thing theory” to the lives and literary legacy of the Brontës, Lutz (Pleasure Bound) skillfully uses the titular nine objects to explore the relationship between the sisters’ world and their fiction. For instance, the miniscule volumes in which the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell, recorded their juvenilia (fantasies set in the worlds of Angria and Gondal), prompts discussion of the dearness of printed books in the early 19th century and the consolation that so many Brontë characters find in reading and owning books. A sampler made by Anne, meanwhile, is tied to the many types of needlework and knitting by which Brontë heroines contribute to their households. A chapter on each sister’s portable writing desk as a “personal space safeguarding secrets” contrasts Charlotte (who craved affection) with Emily (who was “deeply reserved”). Lutz bolsters her observations with abundant references to the Brontës’ novels, poetry, and letters, proving especially insightful on Wuthering Heights. She muses on Emily’s special relationship with the nearby moors (in connection with Branwell’s walking stick), and on the imagery of death and the afterlife that laces the novel (elaborated from locks of the Brontës’ hair kept as death mementos). Lutz commends Emily for her “visceral engagement with her subject matter,” and the same could be said of Lutz in this illuminating biographical study.

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      May 1, 2015
      

      Scholar and Bronte fan Lutz (English, Long Island Univ., Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism) brings a haptic approach to this fantastic example of "thing theory," or material culture. The nine objects the author examines and analyzes each get a dedicated chapter: some are straightforward, such as "Tiny Books," which describe the little volumes that the Bronte sisters--Emily, Charlotte, and Anne--and brother Branwell made out of scraps and remnants and composed stories for; others, such as "Fugitive Letters," discuss the physical objects written and mailed by the sisters and also provide historical and cultural context about postal service of 19th-century England. Also included are meditations on "women's work" and the often clashing personalities of the sisters and the difficulties they faced finding work and getting published. Lutz's knowledge of the Brontes and the world in which they lived and died is impressive and vast, and although it's obvious she researched and read a lot, this study is never dull. VERDICT Lutz entertains and educates in equal measure in this fascinating and readable book. Bronte lovers, Victorian history buffs, literature libraries, and cultural anthropologists, both amateur and professional, will enjoy this title.--Liz French, Library Journal

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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