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“…and Wilkie Collins's The black rob--Nuns and Priests: Sensations of the cloister CharlotteBronte's Villette and the monologues of Robert Browning--Persecution and martyrdom: The law and the body Grace Aguilar's The vale of cedars, or The martyr and George Eliot's Romola--Feeling the great change: Conversion and the authority of affect Benjamin Disraeli's Lothair, J.H. …”
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“…Lawrence -- Why CharlotteBronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? …”
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“…Literary Biography; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Literary Biography Now and Then; The Cinderella of Literary Studies; The Rise and Rise of Literary Biography; Dr Johnson: Biographer, Theorist and Subject; Virginia Woolf: Time, Memory and Identity; 2 Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales; Aspects of Narrative; (i) Beginnings: CharlotteBrontë; (ii) Middles: Thomas Hardy; (iii) Endings: Jane Austen; The Naked Biographer; Inventing the Truth; 3 Reading Biography; Biographer, Biography and the Reader; Imagining Blake; Problems of a Hybrid Form; Reading Lessons…”
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“…Ford -- Form and substance in the Brontë novels / M.R. Watson -- CharlotteBrontës "New" Gothic / R.B. Heilman -- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell / Y. …”
“…Examining works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew, and CharlotteBrontë, Scholl argues for the centrality of hunger in social development and understanding. …”
“…Contributors to this volume discuss the hand in the works of CharlotteBrontë, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Morris, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde"--…”
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“…Introduction : The politics of intimacy in an age of empire / Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton -- Violence and the intimacy of imperial ethnography : the Endeavour in the Pacific / Rachel Standfield -- In search of the "whaheen" : ngai tahu women, shore whalers, and the meaning of sex in early New Zealand / David Haines -- Writing "home" : sibling intimacy and mobility in a Scottish colonial memoir / Elizabeth Vibert -- Intimacy of the envelope : fiction, commerce, and empire in the correspondence of friends Mary Taylor and CharlotteBronté, C. 1845-55 / Charlotte Macdonald -- Suva under steam : mobile men and a colonial port capital, 1880s-1910s / Frances Steel -- Performing "interracial harmony : " settler colonialism at the 1934 pan-pacific women's conference in Hawai'i / Fiona Paisley -- "Il a epouse une sauvagesse" : Indian and metis persistence across imperial and national borders / Michael A. …”
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“…William Shakespeare, The Tempest -- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- CharlotteBronte, Jane Eyre -- Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener: a story of Wall Street -- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness -- James Joyce, Ulysses -- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse -- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God -- William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" -- Samuel Beckett, Endgame -- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children -- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus. …”
“…This I know because my first-generation Kindle(tm) tells me so; when it goes to sleep, its electronic ink every so often morphs into her image, surfacing in the screensaver's rotation of canonical authors along with the likenesses of CharlotteBronte, James Joyce, John Milton, Sir Thomas More, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf"-- "The Value of Emily Dickinson is the first compact introduction to Dickinson to focus primarily on her poems and why they have held and continue to hold such significance for readers. …”
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“…Haggerty -- The medium makes the man: Anne Plumptre's Something new and The history of myself and my friend / Katharina Rennhak -- "Too much in the common novel style": reforming masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Sarah Ailwood -- Constructing masculine narrative: CharlotteBronte's The professor / Sara Pearson -- The lifted veil: George Eliot's experiment with first-person narrative / Frederick Burwick -- Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's eroticized men on the borderlines of morality, religion, race, and nation / Rainer Emig -- "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (re)constructions of Christian masculinity / Roxanne Harde -- The differential construction of masculinity in the writings of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Richter -- Knitting paradise lost: masculinity and domesticity in the novels of Carol Shields / Ellen McWilliams -- Looking (im)properly: women objectifying men's bodies in contemporary Australian women's fiction / Katherine Bode -- Unmaking the self-made man: Louise Erdrich's fictional exploration of masculinity / Angela Laflen -- "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, ideal romance hero / Sarah S.G. …”