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- Title
Napoleonic Periodicals and the Childhood Imagination: The Influence of War Commentary on Charlotte and Branwell Brontë's Glass Town and Angria.
- Authors
BUTCHER, EMMA
- Abstract
The article discusses the influence of war commentary on Glass Town and Angria, the two Napoleonic Wars-inspired imaginary places created by siblings Charlotte and Branwell Brontë between 1829 and 1839 and was nurtured by their childhood imagination. Charlotte and Branwell's characters in their early writings embody the personalities of the Duke of Wellington and French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte, whose rivalry has maintained a lasting legacy in post-war media commentary.
- Subjects
ANGRIA (Imaginary place); IMAGINARY places in literature; BRONTE, Charlotte, 1816-1855; BRONTE, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848; NAPOLEONIC Wars, 1800-1815, in literature; WAR in literature; WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852; NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2015, Vol 48, Issue 4, p469
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.2015.0058