Violence and the Brontës

Language, Reception, Afterlives

AvSophie Franklin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399523004

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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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From their first publication to the present day, generations of readers have been fascinated and troubled by the Brontë sisters’ depictions of violence. Sophie Franklin explores the ways in which ‘violence’ is differently configured within each of their works, and the problems it has posed for their later readers and critics. This absorbing and wide-ranging study sheds new light on the continuing strangeness of these well-known texts and the meanings they have come to bear.

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AcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceAbbreviations Introduction: The Brontës and Violence1. ‘Generally represented by a dash’: Emily Brontë’s Stylistics of Violence2. ‘The acute diseases of nations’: Contaminating Violence in Shirley and Angrian Tales3. ‘Cupid’s arrows have been too sharp for you’: The Violence of Romantic Love in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall4. ‘After the manner of Jael and Sisera’: Transformational Violence in Agnes Grey and Villette5. ‘Sugar and spice and all things nice’: Brontë Afterlives and the Legacies of ViolenceConclusion: The Brontës' Violent ReturnsBibliographyIndex