Author

Publication

2002 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

78,500 words, Guess

Page Count

314 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC823/.8
  • LCCPR4169 .G58 2002

Description

"This examination of Charlotte Bronte's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways in which Bronte's novels engage with the thinking of their time, it offers a powerful argument for the 'literary' as a distinctive mode of intelligence, and reveals a Charlotte Bronte more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History will be of interest not only to students of Victorian literature and society, but also to those literary critics and theorists who are beginning to reconsider the nature of the aesthetic and its relation to ideology."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Charlotte Brontë: the imagination in historyOxford University Press2002-01-01

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