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Autore |
Glen Heather |
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Titolo |
Charlotte Brontë : the imagination in history / / Heather Glen |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-818761-0 |
1-280-75780-9 |
0-19-151515-9 |
0-19-151863-8 |
1-4294-7076-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and history - England - History - 19th century |
Women and literature - England - History - 19th century |
History in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This stimulating study considers how Charlotte Brontë'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 Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. - ;This stimulating study of Charlotte Brontë's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victor |
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