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What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë 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.

Authors, English --- English literature --- Humanity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Brontë family. --- Brontë, Charlotte, --- Brontë, Anne, --- Brontë, Emily, --- Brontë, Emily --- Brontë, Emily Jane --- Bell, Ellis --- Bell, Acton, --- Po-lang-tʻe, An-ni, --- Brontëová, Anne, --- Бронте, Энн, --- Bronte, Ėnn, --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Bolangte, Xialuodi, --- Bronte, Karlotta, --- Bronte, Sharlotta, --- Brontëová, Charlotte, --- Bŭrontʻe, Syarŭllotʻŭ, --- Douro, --- Pirāṇṭē, Cārlaṭṭi, --- Po-lang-tʻe, Hsia-lo-ti, --- Pŭrontʻe, Syarŭllotʻŭ, --- Tree, --- Бронте, Ш., --- Бронте, Шарлотта, --- Bellová, C., --- Bell, Currer, --- Wellesley, Charles Albert Florian, --- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 --- Bronte, Anne, 1820-1849 --- Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848

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This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.

Fiction --- Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- kannibalen --- Gothic --- literatuur --- Stoker, Bram --- Tennant, Emma --- Thomas, D.M. --- Haire-Sargeant, Lin --- Rhys, Jean --- Dickens, Charles --- Brontë, Charlotte --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999