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Charlotte Brontë : The Imagination in History by Heather Glen (2003, Hardcover)

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Charlotte Bronte : The Imagination in History, Hardcover by Glen, Heather, ISBN 0198187610, ISBN-13 9780198187615, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Drawing upon extensive original research in early Victorian writings on subjects ranging from religious thought to sanitary reform, Heather Glen places the novels of Charlotte Brontë in their socio-historical context. She contends that Brontë's writings are intelligently crafted and that she was much more aware of and responsive to her early nineteenth century world than is generally believed. The author teaches English at the University of Cambridge. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198187610

ISBN-139780198187615

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Number of Pages328 Pages

Publication NameCharlotte Brontë : the Imagination in History

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorHeather Glen

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight22.8 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-032662

Reviews"This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice"Sure to be influential in Bront"e studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice "Sure to be influential in Brontstudies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice "Sure to be influential in Bronte studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice "Sure to be influential in Brontë studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."-- Choice"Sure to be influential in Brontë studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."-- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Her scholarship is impressive. ... Provides an immensely valuable record of what nineteenth-century English readers were thinking, and reminds us that Charlotte Brontë was one of them ... will become an indispensable resource for students of the Brontës and nineteenth-century culture. Glen shows us how, exactly, Brontë's novels are topical, and a picture of the age in which she lived and wrote emerges that is richer and more detailed than any we have previously had., ... a welcome and significant addition to the recent book-length studies of Charlotte Brontë's work., "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice"Sure to be influential in Bront¨e studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice "Sure to be influential in Bront studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, ... presents a Charlotte Brontë aware of and responsive to many of the cross-currents of her own time. Charlotte would surely expect us to read her novels in this context, and relate them to Byron, Thackeray, or Carlyle. This is what Heather Glen does in a book that ranges from Evangelical pedagogy to keepsake annuals and from millenarianism to the Great Exhibition., "This groundbreaking study meticulously documents that Bronte's juvenilia and fiction reflect both her sophisticated literary intelligence and early Victorian cultural phenomena more pervasively than hitherto recognized."--Choice"Sure to be influential in Brontë studies, it is shrewdly comparative, casting each novel against the rest to illuminate the edges of each; it is well-researched and often movingly written."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal823/.8

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. The mighty phantasm2. 'Calculated abruptness': The Professor3. Triumph and jeopardy: the shape of Jane Eyre4. 'Dreadful to me': Jane Eyre and history (1)5. 'Incident, life, fire, feeling': Jane Eyre and history (2)6. The terrible handwriting: Shirley7. 'Entirely bewildered': Villette and history (1)8. 'The prism of pain': Villette and history (2)EpilogueIndex

SynopsisThis stimulating study considers how Charlotte Bront '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 Bront more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be., 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 Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways in which Brontë'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 Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. The study 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.

LC Classification NumberPR4169.G58 2002