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Reading the Bronte Body
Beth Torgerson
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Description for Reading the Bronte Body
Paperback. This text combines medical anthropology, the history of medicine, and literary analysis to offer a new perspective on representations of disease and illness found in the novels written by Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness and the body were understood in Victorian England. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë'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 Brontës' 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 Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework ... Read more
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë'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 Brontës' 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 Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230103283
SKU
V9780230103283
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99-15
About Beth Torgerson
BETH TORGERSON is currently an Assistant Professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, USA. The recipient of the Bechtol Lee Doctoral Fellowship, she attended King's College London, UK for a year as an affiliated research student, where she participated in their Victorian Studies graduate program. Her scholarly work has appeared in Victorian Review and Disabilities Studies Quarterly. Also a poet, ... Read more
Reviews for Reading the Bronte Body
"A cogently argued book....provides a unique perspective on the structure and content of the novels, and also represents a valuable historical background for any Brontë reader." - Brontë Studies "This is an important and very useful approach to the always compelling Bronte sisters, one that takes the reader back to a most important element of their lives and the lives ... Read more