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Reading the Bront

Torgerson, Beth

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Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives. An in-depth analysis of the history of nineteenth-century medicine provides the necessary cultural context to understand these representations, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness, and the body were understood in Victorian England. Together, medical anthropology and the history of medicine offer a useful lens with which to understand Victorian texts. Reading the Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework and historical background to make such a literary analysis of the Brontë novels possible, while exploring how these representations of disease and illness work within a larger cultural framework.

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SPRINGER NATURE

Bisac Major Subject

Literary Criticism

Bisac Minor Subject

Women Authors

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Paperback

Edition Description

2005

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8.4 Inches

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EAN

Width

5.5 Inches

Publication Date

2010-07-20

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0.5 Inches

ISBN 10

0230103286

Weight

0.6 Pounds

Book EAN

9780230103283

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Adults

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