Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk

by Janet Gezari

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In both her life and her art, Charlotte Bront? was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or underacknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our modern sense of the word: too quick to take offense or covertly aggressive. For some, Bront?'s novels are deformed by hunger, rebellion, and rage; for others, they are deformed by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812231627
• ISBN13: 9780812231625
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"