Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte BrontA-, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson discusses the influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, particularly on BrontA- and Eliot, and argues that Ruskinian aesthetics, Darwinism, and other scientific preoccupations of an industrializing economy, changed constructions of landscape in the later nineteenth century. Henson examines...
Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte BrontA-, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne...