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Reading the Brontë body :

1281368342

1403967962

1403980187

9781281368348

9781403967961

9781403980182

1403967962

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Reading the Brontë body :

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disease, desire, and the constraints of culture /

Beth Torgerson.

1st ed.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2005.

1 online resource (x, 180 pages)

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction * "Sick of Mankind and Their Disgusting Ways": Alcoholism, Social Reform, and Anne Brontë's Narratives of Illness * Ailing Women in the Age of Cholera: Illness in Shirley * Hysteria, Female Desire, and Self-Control in Villette * Vampires, Ghosts, and the Disease of Dis/Possession * Conclusion.

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Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives. An in-depth analysis of the history of nineteenth-century medicine provides the cultural context for these representations, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness, and the body were understood in Victorian England. Together, medical anthropology and the history of medicine offer a useful lens with which to understand Victorian texts. Reading the Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework and historical background to make such a literary analysis of the Brontë novels possible, while exploring how these representations of disease and illness work within a larger cultural framework.

Palgrave Macmillan

302835

Reading the Brontë body.

Brontë, Anne,1820-1849-- Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855-- Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Emily,1818-1848-- Criticism and interpretation.

Brontë, Anne,1820-1849

Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855

Brontë, Emily,1818-1848

Desire in literature.

Diseases in literature.

Human body in literature.

Literature and medicine-- England-- History-- 19th century.

Women and literature-- England-- History-- 19th century.

Attitude to Health.

Literature, Modern.

Medicine in Literature.

Desire in literature.

Diseases in literature.

Gender studies, gender groups.

Human body in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.

Literature and medicine.

Literature.

Women and literature.

England.

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KCLT

LIT-- 004120

Torgerson, Beth E., (Beth Ellen)

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