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Emily Brontë's Poems

By: Janet Gezari,Lucretia L Allyn Professor of Literatures in English Janet Gezari

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Emily Brontë's Poems

By: Janet Gezari,Lucretia L Allyn Professor of Literatures in English Janet Gezari

Emily Brontë's poetry is more often celebrated than read. This book seeks to reinstate her poems at the heart of Victorian writing while underlining their relevance. For admirers of 'Wuthering Heights', this work brings the concerns and methods of the novel into focus by relating them to the poems.

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0199298181

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9780199298181

Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct

The Author and the Body at Risk

By: Janet Gezari

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Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct

The Author and the Body at Risk

By: Janet Gezari

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In both her life and her art, Charlotte Brontë was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or underacknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our modern sense of the word: too quick to take offense or covertly aggressive. For some, Brontë's novels are deformed by hunger, rebellion, and rage; for others, they are deformed by the repression of these feelings. Both views ignore hunger, rebellion, and rage as powerful resources for Brontë's art rather than as personal difficulties to be surmounted or even deplored. Janet Gezari reassesses Charlotte Brontë's achievement by showing the ways in which an embodied defensiveness is central to both the novels and their author's life. She argues that Brontë's novels explore the complex relations between accommodation and resistance in the lives of those who find themselves—largely for reasons of class and gender—on the defensive. Gezari rehabilitates the concept of defensiveness by suggesting that there are circumstances in which defensive conduct is both appropriate and creditable. The emphasis on a different kind of bodily experience in each novel identifies Brontë's specific social concerns in the text; and the kinds of self-defenses at issue in it. This book arrives in the wake of renewed critical interest in Charlotte Brontë, especially on the part of feminist critics. They have substantially revised our understanding of Jane Eyre and Villette, but there have been few studies of The Professor and Shirley, and few book-length studies of Charlotte Brontë's work as a whole. Although Gezari's book is not a biography, she also seeks to revise our sense of Brontë's life by turning attention from its familiar romantic circumstances—the bleakness of the Yorkshire moors and unrequited love—to its less familiar practical circumstances—her struggles as a woman of a certain class and a publishing author. They reveal a woman more embattled, contentious, and resilient, though no less passionate, than the more familiar trembling soul.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512802263

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Emily Brontë's Poems

By: Janet Gezari,Lucretia L Allyn Professor of Literatures in English Janet Gezari

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Emily Brontë's Poems

By: Janet Gezari,Lucretia L Allyn Professor of Literatures in English Janet Gezari

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Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct

The Author and the Body at Risk

By: Janet Gezari

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Shirley

By: Charlotte Brontë

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Shirley

By: Charlotte Brontë

Shirley is Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s only historical novel and her most topical one. The introduction to this new edition considers its autobiographical overtones as well as its social context, and includes revised notes and bibliography. - ;'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.' Shirley is Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers; he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk. Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. The friendship between the two women, and the contrast between their situations, is at the heart of this compelling novel, which is suffused with Bront--euml--;'s deep yearning for an earlier time. -

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0191538078

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