From cabinets of curiosities to exhibitions : Victorian curiosity, curiousness, and curious things in Charlotte Brontë

This thesis intends to answers these questions: What did “curiosity” mean in the nineteenth century, and how do Charlotte Brontë's four major works represent such curiosity? How were women looked at, formulated, and situated under the nineteenth-century curious gaze? In order to answer these qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Han-Ying
Other Authors: Gilmartin, Sophie
Published: Royal Holloway, University of London 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586921