Scholarly study of Charlotte Brontë’s novels, linking them to Victorian thought, history, and the aesthetics–ideology debate.
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Scholarly study of Charlotte Brontë’s novels, linking them to Victorian thought, history, and the aesthetics–ideology debate.
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"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...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Academic discussion of romance themes in Brontë’s novels
Violence & gore
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Brief critical references to peril or hardship in the novels
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Recurring analysis of early Victorian religious thought
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft content
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Victorian social ideology, gender, and aesthetics debated
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Critical references to hardship themes in Brontë’s fiction
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