Reading the Brontë body : disease, desire, and the constraints of culture
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Reading the Brontë body : disease, desire, and the constraints of culture
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, c2005
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte'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 Brontes' 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 Bronte Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework and historical background to make such a literary analysis of the Bronte novels possible, while exploring how these representations of disease and illness work within a larger cultural framework.
目次
Introduction 'Sick of Mankind and Their Disgusting Ways': Alcoholism, Social Reform, and Anne Bronte's Narratives of Illness Ailing Women in the Age of Cholera: Illness in Shirley Hysteria, Female Desire, and Self-Control in Villette Vampires, Ghosts, and the Disease of Dis/Possession Conclusion
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