Reading the Brontë body: disease, desire, and the constraints of culture

This text combines medical anthropology, the history of medicine, and literary analysis to offer a new perspective on representations of disease and illness found in the novels written by Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness and the body were understood in Victorian England. BETH E. TORGERSON Assistant Professor of English, Flagler College, USA. INDICE: Introduction 'Sick of Mankind and Their Disgusting Ways': Alcoholism, Social Reform, and Anne Brontë's Narratives of Illness Ailing Women in theAge of Cholera: Illness in Shirley Hysteria, Female Desire, and Self-Control in Villette Vampires, Ghosts, and the Disease of Dis/Possession Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10328-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 08/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido