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The Brontës and the Idea of the Human Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Brontës and the Idea of the Human Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

By Alexandra Lewis

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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 ...Show more

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9781107154810

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2019

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1

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The Brontës and the Idea of the Human Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

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Hardcover

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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Hardcover · 2018

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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