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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Anne Brontë"”.
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Questioning Voices: Dissention and Dialogue in the Poetry of Emily and Anne Brontë
My dissertation examines the roles of Emily and Anne Brontë as nineteenth-century women poets, composing in a literary form dominated by androcentric language and metaphor. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly concerning spoken and implied dialogue, and feminists who have pioneered an …
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Symbol and theme : a study of natural imagery in selected novels of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë
… Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette, and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wild fell Hall, examining each sister's individual use of nature, and its related symbols and images. This thesis will show how the natural world provides the structural principle on which each of these …
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"The object of their life": defining female self in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Marjoribanks
… study genre and characterization choices made by Anne Brontë in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Margaret Oliphant in Miss Marjoribanks. For the most part, these choices have been perceived negatively by critics because the resulting text does not produce evidence of either twentieth-century …
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Privately deviant, publicly disciplined: the violent seizure of female narratives in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, and Lady Audley’s Secret
… subjects within their patriarchal society. What Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon emphasize and “sensationalize” is the subjugated marriage relationship, violently portraying men forcing their wives into submission. Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Collin’s The Woman in White, …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… to read George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Brontë, I contend that this ideology challenges conventional Victorian conceptions of femininity and prevailing scholarly assessments of the figure of the fallen woman in the work of these major authors. Through their representations of women’s …
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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
… mourning offered in literature by Thomas Hardy, Anne Brontë, Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell to argue that in Victorian Britain and America, the repressive and gendered mourning culture could be appropriated by women to highlight its most egregious limitations as well as its opportunities. …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Charlotte Yonge, and Amy Levy. It analyzes how their heroines wield literal and metaphorical vision to navigate the male gaze and male surveillance of the Victorian art …
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Leaving Her Story: The Path to the Second Marriage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch
… of women whose first marriages were imperfect. Anne Brontë and George Eliot dedicated themselves to portraying in their stories realistic heroines who deal with their own flaws as well as those of the men they marry. Their heroines distance themselves from their expected roles, moving beyond …