Charlotte Brontë and defensive conduct the author and the body at risk /
In both her life and her art, Charlotte Bronte was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or under-acknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our modern sense of the word: too quick to take offense or covertly aggressive. For some, Bronte's novels are...
| Main Author: | Gezari, Janet. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1992]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introductory: Defending and Being Defensive
- 2. The Master's Hand: Vindictiveness and Vindication in The Professor
- 3. In Defense of Vision: The Eye in Jane Eyre
- 4. The "Mental Stomach" in Shirley: Digesting History
- 5. The Performing Body: Villette After Wuthering Heights
- 6. Masking the Self: Voice and Visibility in Villette.