CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. The Mighty Phantasm; 2. 'Calculated abruptness': The Professor; 3. Triumph and Jeopardy: The Shape of Jane Eyre; 4. 'Dreadful to me': Jane Eyre and History (1); 5. 'Incident, life, fire, feeling': Jane Eyre and History (2); 6. The Terrible Handwriting: Shirley; 7. 'Entirely bewildered': Villette and History (1); 8. The Prism of Pain: Villette and History (2); Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Through a consideration of the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, this text offers an argument for the 'literary' as a distinctive mode of intelligence, revealing Brontë to be more aesthetically sophisticated than previously supposed.
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Title
Charlotte Brontë.
International Standard Book Number
9780199272556
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855-- Knowledge-- History.
Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
History in literature.
Literature and history-- England.
Women and literature-- England-- History-- 19th century.