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The Brontës and the idea of the human : science, ethics, and the Victorian imagination
- Title
- The Brontës and the idea of the human : science, ethics, and the Victorian imagination / edited by Alexandra Lewis, University of Aberdeen.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lewis, Alexandra, 1981-
- Description
- xiii, 290 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v.115
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v.115.
- Subject
- Brontë family
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation
- Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 > Criticism and interpretation
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 > Criticism and interpretation
- Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
- 1800-1899
- Authors, English > 19th century
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Humanity in literature
- Authors, English
- English literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Human subjects: reimagining the Brontës for twenty-first-century scholarship / Alexandra Lewis -- Hanging, crushing, and shooting: animals, violence, and child-rearing in Brontë fiction / Sally Shuttleworth -- Learning to imagine: the Brontes and nineteenth-century educational ideals / Dinah Birch -- Charlotte Brontë and the science of the imagination / Janis McLarren Caldwell -- Being human: de-gendering mental anxiety; or hysteria, hypochondriasis, and traumatic memory in Charlotte Brontë's Villette / Alexandra Lewis -- Charlotte Brontë and the listening reader / Helen Groth -- Burning art and political resistance: Anne Brontë's radical imaginary of wives, enslaved people, and animals in the Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Degraded nature: Wuthering Heights and the last poems of Emily Brontë / Helen Small -- 'Angels recognize our innocence': on theology and 'human rights' in the fiction of the Brontës / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- 'A strange change approaching': ontology, reconciliation, and eschatology in Wuthering Heights / Simon Marsden -- 'Surely some oracle has been with me': women's prophecy and ethical rebuke in poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë / Rebecca Styler -- Jane Eyre, a teaching experiment / Isobel Armstrong -- Fiction as critique: postscripts to Jane Eyre and Villette / Barbara Hardy -- We are three sisters: the lives of the Brontës as a Chekhovian play / Blake Morrison.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9766
- ISBN
- 9781107154810
- 1107154812
- LCCN
- 2018038592
- OCLC
- 1078957450
- Title
- The Brontës and the idea of the human : science, ethics, and the Victorian imagination / edited by Alexandra Lewis, University of Aberdeen.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v.115Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; v.115.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Lewis, Alexandra, 1981- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9766