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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Wildfell Hall"”.
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Dwelling and the Woman Artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
… of dwelling in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by analyzing the different ways the novel’s protagonist, Helen Huntingdon, adapts to the harsh, sublime landscape of Wildfell Hall and the subsequent relationship that develops between her and Gilbert Markham. Escaping her violent and …
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Dwelling and the Woman Artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
… of dwelling in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by analyzing the different ways the novel’s protagonist, Helen Huntingdon, adapts to the harsh, sublime landscape of Wildfell Hall and the subsequent relationship that develops between her and Gilbert Markham. Escaping her violent and …
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An invisible main character : divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
… divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deepens our understanding of the role of religion in these texts. I also want to build on feminist criticism that notices the ways in which the heroines' faith empowers them and argue that their faith in divine providence also directly …
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"The object of their life": defining female self in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Marjoribanks
… 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 or themes. However, as …
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Leaving Her Story: The Path to the Second Marriage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch
… <p>Anne Brontë's <em>The Tenant of Wildfell Hall</em> follows Helen Huntingdon as she attempts to fulfill the self-appointed role of Savior to her husband. Her rash first marriage opens her eyes to her frank inability to redeem and reform her reprobate husband. Along the same lines …
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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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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
… their wives into submission. Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Collin’s The Woman in White, and Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret provide examples of men attempting to control the women in their lives. These novels deploy moments of violent seizure to dramatize and critique the inequalities inherent …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… by women painters in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Dinah Craik’s Olive, and Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the House; they forge entry into the historically male-dominated visual art world and achieve financial self-sufficiency by selling their work. Finally, chapter four examines …
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Monstrous Marriage: Re-Evaluating Consent, Coverture, and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Gothic Fiction
… Jane Eyre, and Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I examine these works in light of consent and the law of coverture, as well as social expectations that create false narratives about ideal marriages. The intersection of matrimonial laws and Gothic conventions allowed women writers …