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Author Torgerson, Beth E. (Beth Ellen)

Title Reading the Brontë body : disease, desire, and the constraints of culture / Beth Torgerson.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 B869YTO    Check Shelf
Description x, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Sick of mankind and their disgusting ways": victorian alcoholism,social reform, and Anne Bronte's narratives of illness -- Ailing women in the age of cholera: illness in Shirley -- Hysteria, female desire, and self-control in villette -- Vampires, ghosts, and the disease of dis/possession in Wuthering heights.
Subject Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Human body in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Desire in literature.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849.
Medicine in Literature.
Attitude to Health.
Literature, Modern.
ISBN 1403967962 alkaline paper
9781403967961 alkaline paper
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