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Violence and the Brontës

Language, Reception, Afterlives

Av Sophie Franklin

Del i serien Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

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The well-known and well-loved writings of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte are full of violence. From the many battles waged in their early writings to the violent emotions and threats expressed in their published novels, the Brontes' representations of brutality shocked initial Victorian reviewers and continue to surprise readers in the twenty-first century. Violence and the Brontes accounts for such intense reactions by tracing the sisters' self-conscious grappling with the transformational complexities of representing violence in literature as a destructive but also mutually creative force. Through a new reading of the Brontes' major works, as well as film, stage and television adaptations, this book argues that violence is at the centre of the Brontes' imaginative engagements with nineteenth-century life and continues to be vital to interpreting their works' reception history and afterlives in modern culture.
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Sophie Franklin is a DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Dublin. She is the author of Charlotte Brontë Revisited: A View from the Twenty-First Century (2016) and co-editor of Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future (2023), as well as several articles and book chapters on the Brontës. She is currently an Associate Editor of Brontë Studies.

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This is a meticulously-researched, comprehensive study of the ways in which violence both underpins the Brontës’ major works, and informs critical and creative reception of these works. It probes received Brontë lore with precision, grappling with established biographical readings [...] and problematising the tenacious critical readings of, for example, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. [...] Conceptually rich, and rigorously well-informed, it is also an invigorating read; there is a freshness and verve to Franklin’s writing that makes this book accessible and interesting, as well as authoritative. [...] It feels like an important and enduring contribution to Brontë Studies.

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