Charlotte Bronte : the imagination in history / Heather Glen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glen, Heather.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Knowledge--History.

Brontë, Charlotte.

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

Literature and history.

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

Women and literature.

History in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. - ;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 Victor

Contents:

CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 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; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-818761-0

1-280-75780-9

0-19-151515-9

0-19-151863-8

1-4294-7076-3

OCLC:

437109440