Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230103286 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Augustine, USA. . BETH TORGERSON is currently an Assistant Professor at Flagler College in St. The recipient of the Bechtol Lee Doctoral Fellowship, she attended King's College London, UK for a year as an affiliated research student, where she participated in their Victorian Studies graduate program. Her scholarly work has appeared in Victorian Review and Disabilities Studies Quarterly. Also a poet, her poetry has appeared in
"Reading the Bronte Body brings significant insight to the Bronte's" according to Rosalinda Sanquiche. This is the most insightful book on reading the Bronte's I have read. Dr. Torgerson makes a strong connection between illness, historical context and literature which deepens ones understanding of the Bronte's writing. Whether the reader is a freshman, first approaching the Bronte's intellectually, or the reader is an academic searching for different perspectives, this book offers a reasoned approach to understanding the sophistica. "Too Much History, Not Enough Content" according to Ariana. In Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture, Beth Torgerson focuses on the illnesses that affected women in Victorian times. The book attempts to establish a relationship between cultural disconnect and sicknesses that threaten people today and in Victorian times. Torgerson touches on four illnesses: alcoholism, cholera, hysteria or psychosis, and her term dis/position, which is the discord form. "Five Stars" according to Deborah Morse. Original, thoughtful, perceptive reading of the Brontes and illness.
Together, medical anthropology and the history of medicine offer a useful lens with which to understand Victorian texts. Reading the Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework and historical background to make such a literary analysis of the Brontë novels possible, while exploring how these representations of disease and illness work within a larger cultural framework.. Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequen
"A cogently argued bookovides a unique perspective on the structure and content of the novels, and also represents a valuable historical background for any Brontë reader." - Brontë Studies "This is an important and very useful approach to the always compelling Bronte sisters, one that takes the reader back to a most important element of their lives and the lives of their fictional characters, the gendered body and its individual and cultural ills." - Gail Turley Houston, The University of New Mexico"Beth Torgerson has done an admirable job of showing, as her subtitle indicates, the constraints of culture that inflected and arguably fuelled the Bronte sisters representations of illness." - Victorian Review" .a clearly written, well organized book" - VIJ Reviews