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Charlotte Bronte and Defensive Conduct : The Author and the Body at Risk / Janet Gezari.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812231625
  • 9781512802269
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8 20
LOC classification:
  • PR4169 .G49 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introductory: Defending and Being Defensive -- 2. The Master's Hand: Vindictiveness and Vindication in The Professor -- 3. In Defense of Vision: The Eye in Jane Eyre -- 4. The "Mental Stomach" in Shirley. Digesting History -- 5. The Performing Body: Villette After Wuthering Heights -- 6. Masking the Self: Voice and Visibility in Villette -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Janet Gezari reassesses Charlotte Bronte's achievement by showing the ways in which an embodied defensiveness is central to both the novels and their author's life. Gezari seeks to revise our sense of Bronte's life by turning attention from its familiar romantic circumstances to its less familiar practical circumstances. They reveal a woman more embattled, contentious, and resilient, though no less passionate, than the more familiar trembling soul.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introductory: Defending and Being Defensive -- 2. The Master's Hand: Vindictiveness and Vindication in The Professor -- 3. In Defense of Vision: The Eye in Jane Eyre -- 4. The "Mental Stomach" in Shirley. Digesting History -- 5. The Performing Body: Villette After Wuthering Heights -- 6. Masking the Self: Voice and Visibility in Villette -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Janet Gezari reassesses Charlotte Bronte's achievement by showing the ways in which an embodied defensiveness is central to both the novels and their author's life. Gezari seeks to revise our sense of Bronte's life by turning attention from its familiar romantic circumstances to its less familiar practical circumstances. They reveal a woman more embattled, contentious, and resilient, though no less passionate, than the more familiar trembling soul.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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