Charlotte Bronte and Defensive Conduct : : The Author and the Body at Risk / / Janet Gezari.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Janet Gezari reassesses Charlotte Bronte's achievement by showing the ways in which an embodied defensiveness is central to both the novels and their author's life. Gezari seeks to revise our sense of Bronte's life by turnin...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introductory: Defending and Being Defensive
- 2. The Master's Hand: Vindictiveness and Vindication in The Professor
- 3. In Defense of Vision: The Eye in Jane Eyre
- 4. The "Mental Stomach" in Shirley. Digesting History
- 5. The Performing Body: Villette After Wuthering Heights
- 6. Masking the Self: Voice and Visibility in Villette
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter