Charlotte Brontë
Subtitle: the imagination in history
By: Heather Glen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Knowledge -- History; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; History in literature
Description: "This examination of Charlotte Bronte's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects 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 Bronte'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 Bronte more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be.

Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.