Charlotte Bronte and Defensive Conduct

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In both her life and her art, Charlotte Brontë was alive to the difficulty of responding to attacks that are denied or underacknowledged, so that any defense risks seeming defensive in our modern sense of the word: too quick to take offense or covertly aggressive. For some, Brontë''s novels are deformed by hunger, rebellion, and rage; for...