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Charlotte Brontë and defensive conduct : the author and the body at risk / Janet Gezari.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gezari, Janet, Author.
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Knowledge--Psychology.
- Brontë, Charlotte.
- Human body in literature.
- Defensiveness (Psychology) in literature.
- Conduct of life in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction, English.
- Women and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism--19th century--England.
- Women and literature--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p. )
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Janet Gezari reassesses Charlotte Bronte's achievement by showing the ways in which an embodied defensiveness is central to both the novels and their author's life. Gezari seeks to revise our sense of Bronte's life by turning attention from its familiar romantic circumstances to its less familiar practical circumstances. They reveal a woman more embattled, contentious, and resilient, though no less passionate, than the more familiar trembling soul.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introductory: Defending and Being Defensive
- 2. The Master's Hand: Vindictiveness and Vindication in The Professor
- 3. In Defense of Vision: The Eye in Jane Eyre
- 4. The "Mental Stomach" in Shirley. Digesting History
- 5. The Performing Body: Villette After Wuthering Heights
- 6. Masking the Self: Voice and Visibility in Villette
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512802269
- 1512802263
- 9780585126784
- 058512678X
- OCLC:
- 979968940
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