The Brontes and the Idea of the Human : Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination Hardback
Edited by Alexandra (University of Aberdeen) Lewis
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Hardback
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What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human.
The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century.
Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject.
This important 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:310 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781107154810
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:310 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107154810
