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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Charlotte Brontë"”.
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… constructions 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 …
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… with 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 …
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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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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… the biography 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 …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
… the biography 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 …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… work of Charles 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 …
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Angelic Wasting: The Impacts of the Enlightenment, Evangelicalism, and the Industrial Revolution on Romanticization of Tuberculosis in England, 1800-1850
… In the novels of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë, tuberculosis was used as a vehicle to criticize the working conditions that arose under the Industrial Revolution and the hypocrisy of clergy members, respectively. The poets Keats and Shelley studied the Enlightenment, and though …
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(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings
… women writers 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 …
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Escrituras do corpo: leituras de uma poética queer Niterói
… abordada e investigada. Nomes já canônicos como Charlotte Brontë, James Baldwin e Virginia Woolf dividem espaço com nomes menos estudados na academia (mas igualmente importantes) como David Leavitt, Juliet Jacques e Nella Larsen, destacando o objetivo de ressignificar não apenas leituras …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… and Wuthering 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 …
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Half-finished streets, Illimitable Horizons and Enclosed Intimacy: the landscapes of Elizabeth Gaskells writing.
… narratives. The major novels, the biography of Charlotte Brontë, and several short stories are used to illustrate the argument, although all her work is underpinned by a belief in the intimate connections between human beings and their environment. Chapter I offers an original landscape …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… nineteenth-century thinkers—including Charlotte Brontë, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill—actively grappled with issues of faith and rationality in a rapidly-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape. Prefiguring many of the key insights of the so-called …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… nineteenth-century 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 …
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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 …
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The Religious Beliefs Of Charlotte Brontë, as Reflected in Her Novels And Letters
… was of significance in the sphere of religion in Charlotte Bronte's life and thought. For information on this I have concentrated on a study of her better known novels, her letters and the contacts she had through family and friends. Naturally of importance was her up-bringing in an Evangelical …
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The Contradictory Faces of “Sisterhood”: A Case-Study on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Its Theatrical Adaptation by James Willing and Leonard Rae, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and Its Miniseries Adaptation on HBO
… ideology in <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) by Charlotte Brontë and a theatrical adaptation of the novel by James Willing and Leonard Rae (1879); <em>The Women of Brewster Place </em>(1982) by Gloria Naylor; <em>Big </em><em>Little Lies</em> (2014) by Liane Moriarty and an adaptation of the …
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‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… shows that for novelists such as Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the problem of affective expression became a career-long preoccupation, reflected in both their compositional processes and their published works. This preoccupation was largely defined by their …
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Passionate craftsmanship: the artistry of Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>
… attribute the qualities of passion and power to Charlotte Brontë’s novels without ever really posing the question of what the source of those qualities could be. Ascribing it to the ineffability of genius does nothing to account for the novels as novels, the word structures that have continued to …
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