Violence and the Brontës - (Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures) by Sophie Franklin (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- The well-known and well-loved writings of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë are full of violence.
- Author(s): Sophie Franklin
- 288 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Modern
- Series Name: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
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About the Book
Explores the role of violence in relation to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë's literary productions, receptions and cultural legacies.Book Synopsis
The well-known and well-loved writings of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë are full of violence. From the many battles waged in their early writings to the violent emotions and threats expressed in their published novels, the Brontës' representations of brutality shocked initial Victorian reviewers and continue to surprise readers in the twenty-first century. Violence and the Brontës accounts for such intense reactions by tracing the sisters' self-conscious grappling with the transformational complexities of representing violence in literature as a destructive but also mutually creative force. Through a new reading of the Brontës' major works, as well as film, stage and television adaptations, this book argues that violence is at the centre of the Brontës' imaginative engagements with nineteenth-century life and continues to be vital to interpreting their works' reception history and afterlives in modern culture.Review Quotes
From their first publication to the present day, generations of readers have been fascinated and troubled by the Brontë sisters' depictions of violence. Sophie Franklin explores the ways in which 'violence' is differently configured within each of their works, and the problems it has posed for their later readers and critics. This absorbing and wide-ranging study sheds new light on the continuing strangeness of these well-known texts and the meanings they have come to bear.--Heather Glen, University of Cambridge
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Sub-Genre: Modern
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Theme: 19th Century
Format: Hardcover
Author: Sophie Franklin
Language: English
Street Date: September 30, 2025
TCIN: 1002787394
UPC: 9781399523004
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-9391
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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