| Description |
1 online resource (314 pages) |
| Contents |
CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 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; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Through a consideration of the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, this text offers an argument for the 'literary' as a distinctive mode of intelligence, revealing Brontë to be more aesthetically sophisticated than previously supposed |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Knowledge -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. fast (OCoLC)fst00035263 |
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Literature and history -- England
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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History in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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History.
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History in literature.
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Literature and history.
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Women and literature.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429470766 |
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1429470763 |
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0199272557 |
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9780199272556 |
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9780191515156 |
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0191515159 |
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