03149nam 2200709Ia 450 991080891580332120240912145055.00-19-818761-01-280-75780-90-19-151515-90-19-151863-81-4294-7076-3(CKB)2560000000296072(EBL)422887(OCoLC)437109440(SSID)ssj0000120198(PQKBManifestationID)11130244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120198(PQKBWorkID)10081117(PQKB)10455623(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021911(Au-PeEL)EBL422887(CaPaEBR)ebr10269171(CaONFJC)MIL75780(Au-PeEL)EBL7035764(MiAaPQ)EBC422887(MiAaPQ)EBC7035764(OCoLC)56388332(FINmELB)ELB162443(EXLCZ)99256000000029607220020814h20042002 my 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCharlotte Bronte the imagination in history /Heather Glen1st ed.Oxford Oxford University Press2004, c20021 online resource (327 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-927255-7 0-19-169962-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.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; YThis 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 VictorLiterature and historyEnglandHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryHistory in literatureLiterature and historyHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryHistory in literature.823.8823.8Glen Heather780048MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808915803321Charlotte Brontë3938765UNINA