Heather Glen

Charlotte Brontë

The Imagination in History

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Produktbeschreibung

This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Bront '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 Bront more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780198187615
• ISBN-10: 0198187610
• Artikelnr.: 21591433

Inhaltsangabe

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
Index