Brontes and the Idea of the Human (eBook, ePUB)

Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination
Redaktion: Lewis, Alexandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be human? The Bronte novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontes and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108207041
• Artikelnr.: 56848259

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: human subjects: reimagining the Brontës for
twenty-first-century scholarship Alexandra Lewis; 1. Hanging, crushing, and
shooting: animals, violence and child-rearing in Brontë fiction Sally
Shuttleworth; 2. Learning to imagine Dinah Birch; 3. Charlotte Brontë and
the science of the imagination Janis McLarren Caldwell; 4. Being human:
de-gendering mental anxiety; or hysteria, hypochondriasis, and traumatic
memory in Charlotte Brontë's Villette Alexandra Lewis; 5. Charlotte Brontë
and the listening reader Helen Groth; 6. Burning art and political
resistance: Anne Brontë's radical imaginary of wives, slaves, and animals
in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Deborah Denenholz Morse; 7. Degraded nature:
Wuthering Heights and the last poems of Emily Brontë Helen Small; 8.
'Angels ... recognize our innocence': on theology and 'human rights' in the
fiction of the Brontës Jan-Melissa Schramm; 9. 'A strange change
approaching': ontology, reconciliation, and eschatology in Wuthering
Heights Simon Marsden; 10. 'Surely some oracle has been with me': women's
prophecy and ethical rebuke in poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Rebecca Styler; 11. Jane Eyre, a teaching experiment Isobel Armstrong; 12.
Fiction as critique: postcripts to Jane Eyre and Villette Barbara Hardy;
13. We are three sisters: the lives of the Brontës as a Chekhovian play
Blake Morrison.