Author: Jo WaughPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031651405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Charlotte Brontë and Contagion
Author: Jo WaughPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031651405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion
Author: Allan Conrad ChristensenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134237340
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as plague, nursing and the hospital environment and focusing on certain key texts including Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's Ruth, and Zola's Le Docteur Pascal.
Kept from All Contagion
Author: Kari NixonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438478496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Introduction: "The germ theory again" : disease, ideology, and the possibilities of biotic life in the world of antibiotic purity -- Keep bleeding : plague, vaccination debates, and the necessity of leaky boundaries in Defoe's Journal of the plague year and Shelley's The last man -- "A speculative idea" : childbed fever, early germ theory debates, and (en)gendered speculation in Henry James's Washington Square -- Separation and suffocation : tuberculosis, etiological uncertainty, and female friendship in women's fiction -- Tainted love : venereal disease, morality, and the contagious disease acts in Ibsen's Ghosts and Hardy's The woodlanders and Jude the obscure -- Humanity's waste : typhoid fever, the failure of isolation, and the development of probiotics in three late-century works -- Conclusion: Shuffling within our mortal coil : concluding remarks.
Charlotte Brontë
Author: Claire HarmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman’s biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte’s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte’s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girls’ school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as “nothing special to him at all.” She channeled her torment into her first attempts at a novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention. Charlotte helped power her sisters’ work to publication, too. But Emily’s Wuthering Heights was eclipsed by Jane Eyre, which set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain and insignificant heroine? Charlotte Brontë’s blazingly intelligent women brimming with hidden passions would transform English literature. And she savored her literary success even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed. Charlotte Brontë is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotte’s lifelong struggle to claim love and art for herself, Harman’s richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of Brontë’s own work.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Author: Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. pts. 1-2
Author: Charlotte BrontëPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Author: Charlotte BrontëLife and works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters
Author: Charlotte BrontëWorks of the Sisters Brontë: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell)
Author: Charlotte BrontëCharlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description