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Lamonica Drew <1973-> |
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"We are three sisters" : self and family in the writing of the Brontes / / Drew Lamonica |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Women and literature - England - Yorkshire - History - 19th century |
Autobiography in literature |
Sisters in literature |
Families in literature |
Self in literature |
Yorkshire (England) In literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index. |
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Family as context and content -- The Victorian context : self, family, and society -- The family context : writing as sibling relationship -- Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child" -- Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw -- Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family -- The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values -- Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family -- Life after Villette. |
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While biographers have widely acknowledged the importance of family relationships to Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë and to their writing processes, literary critics have yet to give extensive consideration to the family as a subject of the writing itself. In "We Are Three Sisters," Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Brontës' fictions of personal development, exploring the ways in which their writings recognize the family as a defining community for selfhood. Drawing on extensive primary sources, including works by Sarah Ellis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Richelieu Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell, Lamonica examines the dialogic |
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relationship between the Brontës' novels and a mid-Victorian domestic ideology that held the family to be the principal nurturer of subjectivity. Using a sociohistorical framework, "We Are Three Sisters" shows that the Brontës' novels display a heightened awareness of contemporary female experience and the complex problems of securing a valued sense of selfhood not wholly dependent on family ties. The opening chapters discuss the mid-Victorian "culture of the family," in which the Brontës emerged as voices exploring the adequacy of the family as the site for personal, and particularly female, development. These chapters also introduce the Brontës' early collaborative writings, showing that the sisters' shared interest in the family's formative role arose from their own experience as a family of authors. Lamonica also examines the seldom-recognized influences of Patrick and Branwell Brontë on the development of the sisters' writing. Of the numerous studies on the Brontës, comparatively few consider all seven novels, and no previous study has undertaken to examine the Brontës' writing in the context of mid-Victorian ideas regarding the family-its relationships, roles, and responsibilities. Lamonica explores in detail the various constructions of family in the sisters' novels, concluding that the Brontës were attuned to complexities; they were not polemical writers with fixed feminist agendas. The Brontës disputed the promotion of the family as the exclusive site for female development, morality, and fulfillment, without ever explicitly denying the possibility of domestic contentment. In doing so, the Brontës continue to challenge our readings and our understanding of them as mid-Victorian women. "We Are Three Sisters" is an important addition to the study of these fascinating women and their novels. |
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UNINA9911145256403321 |
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Hathaway Baxter |
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The Age of Criticism : The Late Renaissance in Italy / / Baxter Hathaway |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] |
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©1962 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Italy |
West European History |
HISTORY / Europe / Italy |
Renaixement |
Llibres electrònics |
Itàlia |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part One: Poetry as Imitation -- 1. The Theory of Imitation in the Renaissance -- 2. Patrizi's Attack on Mimesis -- 3. Instruments, Subjects, and Modes of Imitation -- 4. Were Empedocles and Lucretius poets? -- 5. Is poetic imitation limited to imitation of action? -- 6. Are prose fictions poems? -- 7. Imitation as Idol Making and Particularization -- Part Two: Universals and Particulars -- 8. What a world should be and what it is -- 9. Tasso's Perfect Exemplars -- 10. Truth and Reality -- 11. Universality as Unity -- 12. Penumbral Ideas -- 13. The Grandeur of Generality -- Part Three: A Purgation of Passions -- 14. Catharsis: A New Implement -- 15. Robortelli and Maggi -- 16. The Development of the Opposition -- 17. Consolidations -- 18. Moving by Pathos or Ethos -- 19. Syntheses -- 20. Omnibus Purgations -- Part Four: The Poetic Imagination -- 21. The Revival of Classical Ideas -- 22. Speroni and Tomitano -- 23. Girolamo Fracastoro -- 24. Paduans and Aristotelians -- 25. Platonism, Love, Beauty, and Florence -- 26. Mazzoni's Immediate Predecessors -- 27. Mazzoni and Bulgarini -- 28. Mazzoni on Dreams -- 29. Tasso's |
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Magic Realism -- Part Five: The Poet's Art and the Poet's Furor -- 30. Platonists and Aristotelians -- 31. Patrizi's Synthesis -- 32. Christians and Aristotelians -- 33. The Four Furors and the Music of the Spheres -- 34. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd -- INDEX |
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In The Age of Criticism five key concepts of the literary criticism synthesized in the late Renaissance in Italy are examined in depth to show how the shape of literary attitudes in the whole modern world was considerably influenced and determined by sixteenth-century Italian philosophers and literary theorists. The five concepts examined are: poetry as imitation; poetry as a concrete-universal; poetry as a purgation; the poetic imagination; and the conflict between poetry as art and poetry as furor. For the sake of emphasizing the unity of the development of literary theory, the concern is almost entirely with the Italian writers of the period between 1540 and 1613, but the ultimate significance of their work lies in their contribution to the development of the culture of the West in modern times. Sperone Speroni, Ludovico Castelvetro, Francesco Patrizi, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, and Paolo Beni emerge as literary critics of major importance. |
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