TY - BOOK
T1 - The Brontës and the Idea of the Human
T2 - Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination
A2 - Lewis, Alexandra
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds.
AB - What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds.
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/bront%C3%ABs-idea-human
U2 - 10.1017/9781316651063
DO - 10.1017/9781316651063
M3 - Book
SN - 1107154812
SN - 9781107154810
SN - 9781316608371
T3 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
BT - The Brontës and the Idea of the Human
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -