Charlotte Brontë Embodiment And The Material World
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Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World by Justine Pizzo,Eleanor Houghton Pdf
Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history, literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volume addresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels (The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and “Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences that shaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and drawing), Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World forges new connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’s work.
The Theological Dickens by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf
This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also disagreed about Dickens’ thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume’s contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards, labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an investigation of Dickens’ theological concerns. In addition, given that Dickens’ texts continue to influence every generation around the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens’ work and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern society.
"In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses."--BOOK JACKET.
Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution by Susan Zlotnick Pdf
Industrialization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries inspired deep fears and divisions throughout England. The era's emergent factory system disrupted traditional patterns and familiar ways of life. Male laborers feared the loss of meaningful work and status within their communities and families. Condemning these transformations, Britain's male writers looked longingly to an idealized past. Its women writers, however, were not so pessimistic about the future. As Susan Zlotnick argues in Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution, women writers foresaw in the industrial revolution the prospect of real improvements. Zlotnick also examines the poetry and fiction produced by working-class men and women. She includes texts written by the Chartists, the largest laboring-class movement in the early nineteenth century, as well as those of the dialect tradition, the popular, commercial literature of the industrial working class after mid-century.
The World Within by Juliet Gardiner,Gabrielle Townsend Pdf
The road to Haworth - Tales of childhood - A suitable situation - The world without - Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell - Charlotte alone - Family and friends - In the footsteps of the Brontes.
Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters: The Professor: With Poems, by C. Brontë by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Patrick Brontë,Anne Brontë Pdf
This comprehensive collection of the life and works of the Brontë sisters is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of English literature. The volume includes Charlotte Brontë's novel The Professor and a selection of poems by her sister Emily, as well as biographical material and critical essays by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and their father, Patrick Brontë. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the cultural and intellectual milieu of the 19th-century English literary scene. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in fiction, philosophy, and criticism such as Austen, Carlyle, Dickens,Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James.
Any new light on a personality so intense and interesting as Charlotte Brontë; would be right welcome. As Mr. Reid points out, Mrs. Gaskell labored under certain disadvantages when she wrote the 'Memoir,' too many of the persons directly affected by a full revelation being then living to allow her to write with the complete freedom that is desirable in dealing with such a life. Especially was it impossible to do this while Mr. Brontë lived. And yet she wrote so freely as to involve herself in various difficulties. Mr. Reid's main point, however, is that Mrs. Gaskell not only wrote under certain felt restrictions, but that she framed a stringent theory of her subject's character, and was too intent on making all the facts and documents bend to it. Mr. Reid therefore presents us with a selection from her letters to a school companion, to most of which Mrs. Gaskell did not refer at all, and from some of which she gave mere extracts. He connects these by narrative and running commentary of his own. Mr. Reid has done his work with fine sympathy, care, and enthusiasm, though with sometimes just that slight tendency to over celebration which it is so hard to escape from in such work. His monograph is most attractive and readable throughout, and the public is under no slight obligations to him for it. But we do not feel that his new documents so entirely bear out his theory as we were led to expect. There can be no doubt that the peculiar influences amongst which the Brontës passed their childish days left effects which remained to the end, imparting to all three a strange reserve and morbidity. The vain, selfish father, taking his meals alone; the children left to their own resources, with no sympathetic touch of an elder to draw them out of themselves; the school-life at Cowan Bridge and other places, which confirmed the shy shrinking from their associates; and bitterly the cramped painful life lived in the society of their father and Branwell, the clever wreck-all were to the natures of the Brontës, and especially to that of Charlotte, like some rough surface chafing sensitive exposed flesh, while yet there was a sense of relief in the secret experience derived from each fresh exposure. Into her art she faithfully translated her life; but in her art-in the bulk of 'Jane Eyre,' the 'Professor,' and 'Villette' - do we not see this self-controlled determination to face unshrinkingly the almost morbid contact of the sensitive nerves with that which re-excites them? Along with all the shy shrinking from contact with strangers or the outside world, are we not now and then oppressed with the too naked revelations which Charlotte Brontë afforded of her own morbid experiences? The fascination of her stories, the sustained calmness of them-which mirrored her own calm and self-control -result chiefly from this; and the criticism which was untowardly directed against 'Jane Eyre,' from the moral side, does have some basis when restated from the artistic side. The experience is still too near, too intense, and as yet unveiled by the action of a strong and healthy imagination. In speaking of 'Villette,' Mr. Reid says that every sentence was wrung from her as though it had been a drop of blood, and the book was built up, bit by bit, amid paroxysms of positive anguish, occasioned in part by her own physical weakness and suffering, but still more by the torture through which her mind passed as she pictured scene after scene from the darkest chapter in her own life for the benefit of those for whom she wrote. This condition, did we find no trace of it in the writing itself, would be a powerful testimony to her dramatic genius; but it colors, directly or indirectly, the product, and imparts a certain subjective uniformity of tone, and a painfulness of feeling which fascinates but does not satisfy..... -The British Quarterly Review [1877]
Ambiguity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette by Olga Springer Pdf
Charlotte Brontë's final novel Villette (1853) is associated with ambiguity because of its open ending: Does M. Paul return to narrator-protagonist Lucy Snowe or is he killed in a storm raging on the Atlantic? Taking its famous ending as a starting point, this study explores Villette as a text in which ambiguity is all-pervasive in various ways. Among these is the narrator's ambivalent attitude toward herself and others, epitomised in her stylistic idiosyncrasies. The links between ambiguity and doubt are explored through an analysis of Lucy's signature phrase, "I know not," expressive of her existential doubts and questioning attitude toward the world. The analysis moreover focuses on the motif of the oracle as a traditionally ambiguous utterance, and explores its relevance in the context of the generic tradition of Villette as a fictional autobiography. Another focus is the interplay of figurative and literal levels of meaning in the allegorical episodes, creating ambiguity.
Author : Jason Daniel Tougaw Publisher : Yale University Press Page : 289 pages File Size : 51,6 Mb Release : 2018-01-01 Category : Literature and science ISBN : 9780300221176
New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë by Barbara A. Suess Pdf
This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's literary fate has been to live in the critical shadow of her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, in spite of the fact that her two published novels, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were widely read and discussed during her lifetime. From a variety of fields-including psychology, religion, social criticism and literary tradition-the contributors to New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Brontë re-assess her works as those of an artist, which demand the rigorous scholarship and attention that they receive here.
American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard by Robert McClure Smith,Ellen Weinauer Pdf
Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York’s literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded from literary memory and importance. This book seeks to understand why. By reconsidering Stoddard’s life and work and her current marginal status in the evolving canon of American literary studies, it raises important questions about women’s writing in the 19th century and canon formation in the 20th century. Essays in this study locate Stoddard in the context of her contemporaries, such as Dickinson and Hawthorne, while others situate her work in the context of major 19th-century cultural forces and issues, among them the Civil War and Reconstruction, race and ethnicity, anorexia and female invalidism, nationalism and localism, and incest. One essay examines the development of Stoddard’s work in the light of her biography, and others probe her stylistic and philosophic originality, the journalistic roots of her voice, and the elliptical themes of her short fiction. Stoddard’s lifelong project to articulate the nature and dynamics of woman’s subjectivity, her challenging treatment of female appetite and will, and her depiction of the complex and often ambivalent relationships that white middle-class women had to their domestic spaces are also thoughtfully considered. The editors argue that the neglect of Elizabeth Stoddard’s contribution to American literature is a compelling example of the contingency of critical values and the instability of literary history. This study asks the question, “Will Stoddard endure?” Will she continue to drift into oblivion or will a new generation of readers and critics secure her tenuous legacy?
