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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Brontë"”.
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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
… the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical …
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A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë
… by the eccentric but transcendent world of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Gondal poems. Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel and poetry, there has not been extensive analysis of her work in connection to modern writers of the early …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… of inner life.</p> <p>Using Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Woolf as case studies, my work identifies radical interiority in British novels of different periods—the Gothic underpinnings of the mid-Victorian marriage plot, the psychological verisimilitude of late nineteenth-century …
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Questioning Voices: Dissention and Dialogue in the Poetry of Emily and Anne Brontë
… 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 exploration …
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… the help of their empathic readers. Charlotte Brontë's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette, Flora Tristan's memoir from her travels to Peru, Pérégrinations d'une paria, and Toru Dutt's novella, Le journal de Mlle d'Arvers are the focus of this study. Brontë's heroines, Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe, …
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“An Unquiet Soul”: Despair and Doubt of God’s Benevolence in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë
<p>As a nineteenth-century writer, Charlotte Brontë lived during a tumultuous time of</p> <p>challenges to previously incontrovertible mores, leading to a refashioning of societal beliefs and attitudes. Challenges to the Church of England, such as the split by the newly formed Free Church of …
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Symbol and theme : a study of natural imagery in selected novels of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë
This thesis comprises an in-depth study of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, 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 …
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Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction
Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were published more than forty years before the appearance of the feminist type that the Victorians called the “New Woman;” yet, both novels contain characteristics of New Woman fiction. By considering how Brontë's novels foreshadow New Woman …
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'Eve's Apples': Growing Ladies In The Brontean Sublime, 1826-1853
<p>Charlotte Brontë's novels have often been discussed as examples of an emerging feminism in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. What popular critiques have failed to acknowledge is the significance of Nature to this new feminism. In this dissertation, I contend that Brontë develops her own …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Brontë. In this paper, I will examine one novel from each writer to explore how each responded to the decline of the Church of England and the growth of other denominations. This thesis project rests on the idea that Gaskell presents religious …
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Spectres of Women in Wuthering Heights
<p>Central to Emily Brontë’s <em>Wuthering Heights</em> (1847) is its famous haunting scene. As this paper suggests, it is in the haunting scene that the novel’s themes are at their most potent and where Brontë is at her most daring, challenging the socially prescribed, gendered binaries of her …
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(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings
… like Anna Jameson, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Dinah Craik, and George Paston opened the space’s inclusive potential. In the process, these works re-gender the spatial politics of the museum and reveal the mediating potential of artistic spaces, where women can re-position themselves in …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… of her fellow novelist The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). <br /><br /> In the introduction, I contextualize Gaskell as what modern critics deem “middle class” and provide a brief overview of the class issues that arise in Gaskell studies. In chapter one, I consider the notable absence of the …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… of her fellow novelist The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857). <br /><br /> In the introduction, I contextualize Gaskell as what modern critics deem “middle class” and provide a brief overview of the class issues that arise in Gaskell studies. In chapter one, I consider the notable absence of the …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… Heights. However, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, and Emily Brontë, the three women writers who craft these characters, both confirm and challenge race stereotypes. The first four chapters of this thesis will explore the construct of race and how it is reflected and subverted through the …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… to the present, I argue that Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Bram Stoker use sleep and wakefulness as vehicles to navigate gendered fluctuations of power and loss. <em>Jane Eyre, The Woman in White</em>, and <em>Dracula</em> each present sleep as a gendered space in which power is …
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"The object of their life": defining female self in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Marjoribanks
… 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 aesthetics …
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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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