...Abby Scribner Abstract This article takes up two famously disliked nineteenth-century novels—Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charlotte Brontë's Villette —and argues that they are dissatisfying to readers because their protagonists fail to cohere as liberal subjects around a legible interior realm...

... analysis of the convergence of Brontë's domestic and capitalist ideas. 2 See Lauren N. Hoffer 's articles on companions in Victorian fiction: “Grindstone” and “Employment Relations.” 3 Of course, this is complicated by the fact that Charlotte Brontë does want to make money from...

... disappeared from such functionalist accounts. He extends that observation to detailed, complex, close studies of Jane Austen's use of the contemp rary medicalization of homesickness; Charlotte Bronte's exploitation of phrenology (which did not even include memo~in its topography of the brain...

... in their texts. This con- flict is particularly evident in the work of Charlotte Bronte and illuminates many of the structural peculiarities of her last novel, Villette. "This weakness of sight": Bronte's Vision Writing to her publisher George Smith in 1852, Charlotte Bronte objected...

.... Whereas Winifred Gerin and Helene Moglen construct a developmental, evolutionary model of authorship, in which Charlotte Bronte emerges out of imaginary worlds and secret authorship to become a professional and realistic author, London believes that the Bronte juvenilia constitutes a different...

... and necessary suggests that perhaps it is not. Even without the Eliot and Morris chapters, the structure is strange-three chapters of introduction, a chapter each on Scott and Dickens, and then a five chapter section in whch the book turns into a book about Charlotte Bronte. The readings themselves...

... dogs. This analysis is prefaced by the familiar (and perhaps apocryphal or exaggerated) story about Emily Brontë and her bull mastiff Keeper that Elizabeth Gaskell tells in The Life of Charlotte Brontë , in which Emily both savagely beats and tenderly nurses her beloved animal companion...

... of information, a world that includes and informs the literary field. Succeeding chapters offer less clutter, resolving for the most part into close readings of canonical fictions. Chapters 2 and 7, for instance, respectively read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless...

... and British Aestheticism. She is currently writing a book on the Victorian novel and Victorian anthropology. IVAN KREILKAMP, who teaches at the University of Chicago, recently published an essay on Charlotte Bronte in Novel. JANET SORENSEN teaches in the English Department at Indiana University...

... Marxist historiography to Foucauldian criticism to Habermas. His five extended discussions of figures of the crowd in the work of Wordsworth, De Quincey, Carlyle, Edgeworth, and Charlotte Bronte are equally insightful and important. I find especially valuable the concluding chapter, pn Bronte's...

... to read within the framework of autobiography, raises sxne questions. Pointing to the subtitles of "autobiography" and "confessionJf that Charlotte BrontP and Nabokov respectively use, he argues that all three writers, Shelley, Bronte ar~d Nabokov, use first-person fictional narratives in order...

... that follow, Carens turns to some of these "skeptical minds"-Charlotte Bronte, George Meredith, Dickens, and Wilkie Collins-to examine how they destabilize their cdture's smug belief in its superiority. Each of tkfollo~ving chapters places a domestic novel beside an "ethnographic" dis- course...

... Stuart Mill, Thomas Nagel, Bertrand Russell, G. W. F. Hegel, and Stanley Cavell, as well as a host of nineteenth-century mathematicians and logicians, and contemporary literary theorists. Wright's basic claim is this: Charlotte Brontë's, George Eliot's, Anthony Trollope's, and Henry James's attempts...

... of the experience of pain. Where Ablow differs from these studies is in the philosophical rigor she brings to the task, as she ranges across work by John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Hardy. Like George Eliot, she shifts her gaze from the whole human horizon...

... of the recent past" by Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, and Eliot are welcome additions to the genre. Lost Causes opens with a polemical introduction that situates its own method in opposi- tion to new historicism. Jones first argues that for many Victorian authors, "history has an ontological, as well...

... life" as it "recasts social issues in imaginative ways and lets responsibility take a backseat to representation" (xx). We often read hterature, such as that of Charlotte Bronte, as therapeutic and Victorian novels in particular as striving for redemption and reconciliation. But the endings...

... as paideia, a beneficial and necessary form of work in the child’s preparation for adulthood. This is how Elizabeth Gaskell describes Charlotte Brontë’s childhood, for example. Child play produces the adult, but against this definition of play, Emily Brontë presents “a future-negating ethic of non...

... to appropriate [the] power" of those very same readers who would not sit quiet and still (99). Kreilkamp's occasional susceptibility to overstatement becomes most pronounced in chapters 5 and 6. Presenting Charlotte Bronte as a significant exception to the book's argu- ment, chapter 5 argues-to my...

... to this effect. In Gilbert's hands, Jane Austen and George Cukor are masters of visual sophistication, and Charles Dickens and Frank Capra are both wizards at going beyond the reaches of censorship, while Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan are artists of passion under censorship pressure. But here, in a nutshell...

... .” The Cambridge Companion to The Brontës . Ed. Glen Heather . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2002 . 13 – 33 . Brontë Charlotte . Jane Eyre . New York : Penguin , 2006 . Brontë Emily . “ The Butterfly .” The Belgian Essays: A Critical Edition . Ed. and trans. Lonoff Sue . New...