Description
Investigates the idea of the human within Bronte sisters' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.
About the Author
Alexandra Lewis is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, and Director of the Centre for the Novel, at the University of Aberdeen. She is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights (2014), and has published extensively on the Brontes, memory and trauma, and nineteenth-century literature and psychology.
Reviews
'This collection of 13 essays offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the Bronte s, especially Charlotte ... The present volume's close readings of the Bronte s' novels lead to fresh insights ... Recommended.' S. A. Parker, Choice
'Alexandra Lewis's edited collection, The Brontes and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination, expands this focus from the cultural to the universal.' Lydia Craig, British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter
Book Information
ISBN 9781316608371
Author Alexandra Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 423g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm