Lewis, Alexandra
The Brontes and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781316608371
- author:
- Lewis, Alexandra
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 312
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, European,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Brontës and the Idea of the Human A significant re-evaluation of how the Brontë sisters responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. This interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds. Leading scholars shed light on innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, shedding new light on the relationship between imagination and definitions of the human subject.
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