Reading the Bronte body : disease, desire, and the constraints of culture / Beth Torgerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torgerson, Beth E. (Beth Ellen)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and medicine--England--History--19th century.

Literature and medicine.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Human body in literature.

Diseases in literature.

Desire in literature.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848--Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Emily.

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Anne.

Physical Description:

x, 180 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reading the Bronteuml; Bodycombines medical anthropology, the history of medicine, and literary analysis to offer a new perspective with which to understand representations of disease and illness found in the novels written by Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronteuml;.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 "Sick of Mankind and Their Disgusting Ways": Victorian Alcoholism, Social Reform, and Anne Brontë's Narratives of Illness

2 Ailing Women in the Age of Cholera: Illness in Shirley

3 Hysteria, Female Desire, and Self-Control in Villette

4 Vampires, Ghosts, and the Disease of Dis/Possession in Wuthering Heights

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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C

D

E

F

G

H

I

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K

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Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

560535933