1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007941370403321

Autore

Houghton, Roy William

Titolo

Public finance : selected readings / edited by R. W. Houghton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harmondsworth : Middlesex, 1970

Descrizione fisica

471 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

Penguin modern economics readings

Disciplina

336

Locazione

DECTS

DSS

SES

Collocazione

H01.21

D 272

N/20 HOU

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910879593903321

Autore

Waugh Jo

Titolo

Charlotte Brontë and Contagion : Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection / / by Jo Waugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031651403

3031651405

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6443

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

European literature

Medicine and the humanities

Nineteenth-Century Literature

European Literature

Medical Humanities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontës -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and “The Common Brotherhood of Man” -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: “Charlotte,” Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë’s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex



one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë’s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.