The Bront�es and the Idea of the Human [electronic resource] : Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination.

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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Imprints Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. Human Subjects: Reimagining the Bront�es for Twenty-First-Century Scholarship; Science, Psychology, and Education; Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion; Creativity; Notes; 1 Hanging, Crushing, and Shooting: Animals, Violence, and Child-Rearing in Bront�e Fiction; 'Fanny, suspended to a handkerchief'; Vivisection; Child Cruelty to Animals; 'The Training of Boys' and Agnes Grey; Son and Dog in The Professor; Notes

2 Learning to Imagine: The Bront�es and Nineteenth-Century Educational IdealsEducational Change; Educating Women; The Bront�es as Teachers and Pupils; Notes; 3 Charlotte Bront�e and the Science of the Imagination; Notes; 4 Being Human: De-Gendering Mental Anxiety; or Hysteria, Hypochondriasis, and Traumatic Memory in Charlotte Bront�e's Villette; Strong Will Maketh the (Hu)man: Gender, Memory, and Self-Control; The Unsound and Healthy Mind in Calamity; Hysteria, Hypochondriasis, and the 'Extreme Boundary of Human Knowledge'; Good Grief! Failures of Language and of Communication; Notes

5 Charlotte Bront�e and the Listening ReaderVictorian Soundings; Listening/Sounding/Reading; Notes; 6 Burning Art and Political Resistance: Anne Bront�e's Radical Imaginary of Wives, Enslaved People, and Animals in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Dogs in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Abolitionist Context of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Helen Graham Huntingdon's Art of Resistance; Notes; 7 Degraded Nature: Wuthering Heights and the Last Poems of Emily Bront�e; Notes; 8 'Angels . . . Recognize Our Innocence': On Theology and 'Human Rights' in the Fiction of the Bront�es

The Submissive Self in Victorian Evangelical TheologyRomantic Autobiography and the Language of Experience; The Rhetoric of Rights; Jane Eyre and the Extension of the Franchise of the Human; Notes; 9 'A Strange Change Approaching': Ontology, Reconciliation, and Eschatology in Wuthering Heights; Refusing the Stranger; Approaching Change: Repetition and Difference; Notes; 10 'Surely Some Oracle Has Been with Me': Women's Prophecy and Ethical Rebuke in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront�e; Prophecy and Women's Poetic Tradition; Charlotte Bront�e: Prophecy as Feminist Critique/Revenge

Emily Bront�e: Woman Vates, Feminine EcologyAnne Bront�e: Dissenting from the 'Prophetic Sublime'; Notes; 11 Jane Eyre, A Teaching Experiment; Human Need and Rochester's 'Family'; Jane Eyre as Non-Subject; Bertha; The Students; Notes; 12 Fiction as Critique: Postscripts to Jane Eyre and Villette; Notes; 13 We Are Three Sisters: The Lives of the Bront�es as a Chekhovian Play; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Investigates the idea of the human within Bront�e sisters' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

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