The Brontës and the Idea of the Human —— Science, Ethics, And The Victorian Imagination

----- 勃朗特与人类观念：科学、道德与维多利亚时代的想象力

ISBN: 9781108216494 出版年：2019 页码：314 Alexandra Lewis Cambridge University Press

What does it mean to be human? the bront?novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The bront雜 and the idea of the human presents a significant re-evaluation of how charlotte, emily, and anne bront?each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds.