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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gezari, Janet
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.