The Bront? and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316608371)

What does it mean to be human? The Bront novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Bront s and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront 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.

Author: Alexandra Lewis
ISBN-10: 1316608379
ISBN-13: 9781316608371
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2021
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d