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BL
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988359
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b742729
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Glen, Heather.
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Charlotte Brontë : : the imagination in history /\ Heather Glen.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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1 online resource (314 pages)
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| ISBN
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0191515159
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: 0199272557
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: 1429470763
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: 9780191515156
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: 9780199272556
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: 9781429470766
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0198187610
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0199272557
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9780199272556
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2002.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. The Mighty Phantasm; 2. 'Calculated abruptness': The Professor; 3. Triumph and Jeopardy: The Shape of Jane Eyre; 4. 'Dreadful to me': Jane Eyre and History (1); 5. 'Incident, life, fire, feeling': Jane Eyre and History (2); 6. The Terrible Handwriting: Shirley; 7. 'Entirely bewildered': Villette and History (1); 8. The Prism of Pain: Villette and History (2); Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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| Abstract
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Through a consideration of the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, this text offers an argument for the 'literary' as a distinctive mode of intelligence, revealing Brontë to be more aesthetically sophisticated than previously supposed.
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Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855-- Knowledge-- History.
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Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855.
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History in literature.
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Literature and history-- England.
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Women and literature-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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History in literature.
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History.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and history.
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Women and literature.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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823.8
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| LC Classification
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PR4169.G58eb
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