03208nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001700169072002300186072001600209100007200225245012300297250001800420264008500438300003300523336002600556337002600582338003600608347002400644490006900668505040000737520115001137650003802287650002502325650003302350650003502383650002502418650002402443710003402467773002602501776003602527776003602563776003602599830006902635856004602704978-3-031-65140-3DE-He21320251030112849.0cr nn 008mamaa240811s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316514037 a10.1007/978-3-031-65140-32doi 4aPN760.5-769 7aDSBF2bicssc 7aLIT0240402bisacsh 7aDSBF2thema1 aWaugh, Jo.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aCharlotte Brontë and Contagionh[electronic resource] :bMyths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection /cby Jo Waugh.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 210 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-64430 aIntroduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontës -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and “The Common Brotherhood of Man” -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: “Charlotte,” Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion.  aThis book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë’s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë’s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK. 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century. 0aEuropean literature. 0aMedicine and the humanities.14aNineteenth-Century Literature.24aEuropean Literature.24aMedical Humanities.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303165139708iPrinted edition:z978303165141008iPrinted edition:z9783031651427 0aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-644340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65140-3