The Brontës and the idea of the human : science, ethics, and the Victorian imagination / edited by Alexandra Lewis, University of Aberdeen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Alexandra, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; v.115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë family.

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

Brontë, Charlotte.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

Criticism and interpretation.

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

Brontë, Anne.

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

Brontë, Emily.

Authors, English--19th century.

Authors, English.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Humanity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Imprints Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. Human Subjects: Reimagining the Brontës for Twenty-First-Century Scholarship; Science, Psychology, and Education; Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion; Creativity; Notes; 1 Hanging, Crushing, and Shooting: Animals, Violence, and Child-Rearing in Brontë Fiction; 'Fanny, suspended to a handkerchief'; Vivisection; Child Cruelty to Animals; 'The Training of Boys' and Agnes Grey; Son and Dog in The Professor; Notes

2 Learning to Imagine: The Brontës and Nineteenth-Century Educational IdealsEducational Change; Educating Women; The Brontës as Teachers and Pupils; Notes; 3 Charlotte Brontë and the Science of the Imagination; Notes; 4 Being Human: De-Gendering Mental Anxiety; or Hysteria, Hypochondriasis, and Traumatic Memory in Charlotte Brontë's Villette; Strong Will Maketh the (Hu)man: Gender, Memory, and Self-Control; The Unsound and Healthy Mind in Calamity; Hysteria, Hypochondriasis, and the 'Extreme Boundary of Human Knowledge'; Good Grief! Failures of Language and of Communication; Notes

5 Charlotte Brontë and the Listening ReaderVictorian Soundings; Listening/Sounding/Reading; Notes; 6 Burning Art and Political Resistance: Anne Brontë's Radical Imaginary of Wives, Enslaved People, and Animals in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Dogs in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Abolitionist Context of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Helen Graham Huntingdon's Art of Resistance; Notes; 7 Degraded Nature: Wuthering Heights and the Last Poems of Emily Brontë; Notes; 8 'Angels . . . Recognize Our Innocence': On Theology and 'Human Rights' in the Fiction of the Brontës

The Submissive Self in Victorian Evangelical TheologyRomantic Autobiography and the Language of Experience; The Rhetoric of Rights; Jane Eyre and the Extension of the Franchise of the Human; Notes; 9 'A Strange Change Approaching': Ontology, Reconciliation, and Eschatology in Wuthering Heights; Refusing the Stranger; Approaching Change: Repetition and Difference; Notes; 10 'Surely Some Oracle Has Been with Me': Women's Prophecy and Ethical Rebuke in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë; Prophecy and Women's Poetic Tradition; Charlotte Brontë: Prophecy as Feminist Critique/Revenge

Emily Brontë: Woman Vates, Feminine EcologyAnne Brontë: Dissenting from the 'Prophetic Sublime'; Notes; 11 Jane Eyre, A Teaching Experiment; Human Need and Rochester's 'Family'; Jane Eyre as Non-Subject; Bertha; The Students; Notes; 12 Fiction as Critique: Postscripts to Jane Eyre and Villette; Notes; 13 We Are Three Sisters: The Lives of the Brontës as a Chekhovian Play; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

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Print version: Lewis, Alexandra. Brontës and the Idea of the Human.

Print version: Lewis, Alexandra. Brontës and the Idea of the Human.

ISBN:

9781108216494

9781316651063

1316651061

1108216498

Publisher Number:

40029162138

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