Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

AvHeather Glen

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This stimulating study of Charlotte Brontë's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways in which Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, it offers a powerful argument for the 'literary' as a distinctive mode of intelligence, and reveals a Charlotte Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. The study will be of interest not only to students of Victorian literature and society, but also to those literary critics and theorists who are beginning to reconsider the nature of the aesthetic and its relation to ideology.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-03-18
Mått155 x 233 x 18 mm
Vikt469 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199272556

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Introduction ; 1. The mighty phantasm ; 2. 'Calculated abruptness': The Professor ; 3. Triumph and jeopardy: the shape of Jane Eyre ; 4. 'Dreadful to me': Jane Eyre and history (1) ; 5. 'Incident, life, fire, feeling': Jane Eyre and history (2) ; 6. The terrible handwriting: Shirley ; 7. 'Entirely bewildered': Villette and history (1) ; 8. 'The prism of pain': Villette and history (2) ; Epilogue ; Index

Her scholarship is impressive. . . . Provides an immensely valuable record of what nineteenth-century English readers were thinking, and reminds us that Charlotte Brontë was one of them. . . . will become an indispensable resource for students of the Brontës and nineteenth-century culture. Glen shows us how, exactly, Brontë's novels are topical, and a picture of the age in which she lived and wrote emerges that is richer and more detailed than any we have previously had.