Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2002
- ISBN 9780198187615
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 241x163x23 mm
- Weight 645 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Brontë's writings engage with a whole range of issues in their time. Through a series of new readings of ostensibly well-known texts, Heather Glen reveals a Charlotte Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The mighty phantasm
'Calculated abruptness': The Professor
Triumph and jeopardy: the shape of Jane Eyre
'Dreadful to me': Jane Eyre and history (1)
'Incident, life, fire, feeling': Jane Eyre and history (2)
The terrible handwriting: Shirley
'Entirely bewildered': Villette and history (1)
'The prism of pain': Villette and history (2)
Epilogue
Index
