Charlotte Brontë : the imagination in history / / Heather Glen

• Autore: Glen Heather
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.8
• Soggetto topico: Literature and history - England - History - 19th century; Women and literature - England - History - 19th century; History in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Charlotte Brontë
• ISBN: 0-19-818761-0; 1-280-75780-9; 0-19-151515-9; 0-19-151863-8; 1-4294-7076-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792234703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II