03570nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-65140-3 DE-He213 20251030112849.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240811s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031651403 978-3-031-65140-3 10.1007/978-3-031-65140-3 doi PN760.5-769 DSBF bicssc LIT024040 bisacsh DSBF thema Waugh, Jo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82199 Charlotte Brontë and Contagion [electronic resource] : Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection / by Jo Waugh. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 210 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 Introduction -- 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. This 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. Literature, Modern 19th century. European literature. Medicine and the humanities. 66324 Nineteenth-Century Literature. European Literature. Medical Humanities. 66327 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031651397 Printed edition: 9783031651410 Printed edition: 9783031651427 Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 66328 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65140-3 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 62391 62391