Brontes and the Idea of the Human

Brontes and the Idea of the Human

Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

Lewis, Alexandra

Cambridge University Press

05/2019

310

Dura

Inglês

9781107154810

15 a 20 dias

640

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Introduction: human subjects: reimagining the Brontes for twenty-first-century scholarship Alexandra Lewis; 1. Hanging, crushing, and shooting: animals, violence and child-rearing in Bronte fiction Sally Shuttleworth; 2. Learning to imagine Dinah Birch; 3. Charlotte Bronte and the science of the imagination Janis McLarren Caldwell; 4. Being human: de-gendering mental anxiety; or hysteria, hypochondriasis, and traumatic memory in Charlotte Bronte's Villette Alexandra Lewis; 5. Charlotte Bronte and the listening reader Helen Groth; 6. Burning art and political resistance: Anne Bronte's radical imaginary of wives, slaves, and animals in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Deborah Denenholz Morse; 7. Degraded nature: Wuthering Heights and the last poems of Emily Bronte Helen Small; 8. 'Angels ... recognize our innocence': on theology and 'human rights' in the fiction of the Brontes Jan-Melissa Schramm; 9. 'A strange change approaching': ontology, reconciliation, and eschatology in Wuthering Heights Simon Marsden; 10. 'Surely some oracle has been with me': women's prophecy and ethical rebuke in poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte Rebecca Styler; 11. Jane Eyre, a teaching experiment Isobel Armstrong; 12. Fiction as critique: postcripts to Jane Eyre and Villette Barbara Hardy; 13. We are three sisters: the lives of the Brontes as a Chekhovian play Blake Morrison.