Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture

by Maria H. Frawley and Beth E. Torgerson

Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bront 's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role they played in the lives of the Victorians and their frequent reoccurrence within the Bront s' personal lives. Blending medical anthropology and the history of medicine, this book offers modern readers a sense of how health, illness, and the body were understood in Victorian England. Reading the Bront Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230103286
• ISBN13: 9780230103283
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"