Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043675
G. Sadaka, V. Panossian
{"title":"Policing Victorian Women’s Desire: Retracing Mirrored Patriarchy in Jane Eyre and Villette","authors":"G. Sadaka, V. Panossian","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2022.2043675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2022.2043675","url":null,"abstract":"This essay locates avenues in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Villette for discussing the parameters of women writers’ internalized patriarchy in Victorian Britain. The first segment treats the importance of the protagonists’ reliance upon different mise-en-abyme books, which act as mirrors that reflect and foreshadow the forlornness of Victorian women in Charlotte Brontë’s two novels. In the second segment, we discuss how Jane and Lucy acknowledge and become the delegates of Thanatos, the androcentric privilege, at the end of their narratives. Psychoanalytic concepts such as the mirror metaphor and the discussion of Eros and Thanatos are used as means to appreciate the detour of desire (which constitutes literary narrative) in the inevitable tour of death.","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"128 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59903812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043676
Juliet Heslewood
{"title":"John Robinson, Mr Nicholls and the Brontës","authors":"Juliet Heslewood","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2022.2043676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2022.2043676","url":null,"abstract":"Much is known about the people who were close to the Brontës, but John Robinson, a young boy who lived one mile from Haworth, in Stanbury, is given only a sentence or two in several major biographies. When he was thirteen, John became a pupil-teacher at the school in Haworth, a role for which he required extra tuition. He received this on Saturday mornings from the Rev Arthur Bell Nicholls. During his lessons, John witnessed first-hand Mr Nicholls' distress over his unrequited love for Charlotte Brontë—a situation John never forgot and was able to vividly recall later in life. Two newspaper articles featuring John's reminiscences add much to our knowledge about the private suffering of Mr Nicholls as well as John's closeness to his teacher. When Mr Nicholls married Charlotte, John was one of the few people invited to attend the ceremony. By the time he was eighteen, following the progress he had made in his studies, John was about to embark on a promising career when he received some very personal gifts from Patrick Brontë. In this paper, I hope to retrieve John from obscurity by examining the nature of his unique, close relationship with Mr Nicholls while revealing the esteemed place he held within the Brontë family.","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"141 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47729047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043601
S. Starke
{"title":"Salvator Rosa’s Influence on Emily Brontë","authors":"S. Starke","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2022.2043601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2022.2043601","url":null,"abstract":"Emily Brontë was a landscape artist in two media: text and image. Her aesthetic was shaped by the work of the seventeenth-century Italian artist Salvator Rosa, whose ‘spiritual landscapes’ of the dark, rocky and mountainous Abruzzi wilderness captured the imagination of earlier English collectors before being dismissed as old-fashioned by Victorian art critics. Contemporary reviewers of Wuthering Heights recognized the affinity of visual sensibility between the two, while the novel employs a landscape iconography derived from Rosa. The most notable example is the motif of the twisted fir tree, which figures prominently in the novel and inspired her to make her own pencil drawing study. Emily Brontë infuses the Salvatorian sublime into her descriptions of landscape while also channelling Rosa’s fascination with outlaws in the wilderness in the characters in her Gondal poems. A study of Rosa’s influence on Emily Brontë’s work reveals her to be a sophisticated aesthetic archaist.","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"113 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59903771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2041794
C. Van der Meer
{"title":"The The Wool Is Rising and Shirley and the Leeds Mercury","authors":"C. Van der Meer","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2022.2041794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2022.2041794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"158 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59903756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2022-02-25DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2040254
Jacqueline H. Harris
{"title":"Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885","authors":"Jacqueline H. Harris","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2022.2040254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2022.2040254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"154 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47885452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2021.1990477
G. Tytler
{"title":"The Presentation of Hindley Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights","authors":"G. Tytler","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2021.1990477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1990477","url":null,"abstract":"Hindley Earnshaw is quite likely to be adjudged by many readers as the most unpleasant character portrayed in Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights (1847). Certainly, the number of negative references to him far outbalance those made to any other figure in the narrative. Yet it is interesting to note that, in spite of our perforce reacting unfavourably for the most part to Hindley’s speech and behaviour, we nevertheless find ourselves eventually having quite ambivalent feelings about him, and that principally through his association with people outside his immediate family: Nelly Dean, Joseph, Isabella and, to some extent, Mr Kenneth. It is, moreover, through these relationships that Brontë partly supplements what we think we already know about these characters by revealing unusual or unexpected aspects of them. Indeed, it is a testimony to Emily Brontë’s profound knowledge of human nature that she enables us to understand why we may sometimes feel sympathetic towards someone all too readily dismissed as a mere villain.","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"18 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48737738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615
J. Shears
{"title":"An allusion to Don Juan: reappraising Branwell Brontë’s Byronic self-fashioning","authors":"J. Shears","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615","url":null,"abstract":"In January 1847, Branwell Brontë wrote a letter to his friend J. B. Leyland quoting from Lord Byron’s satirical epic Don Juan (1819–24). This was an unusual choice of allusion given that the topic is Byron’s feelings of longsuffering that Branwell usually related to other Byron works such as Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) and Manfred (1817). This essay explores the reasons why the stanzas to which Branwell refers seemed a more appropriate literary touchstone at a point in his life when he was publicly suffering personal and professional embarrassment as he struggled to come to terms with romantic disappointment and his heavy drinking.","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"30 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49488735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bronte StudiesPub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2021.1989799
E. Chitham
{"title":"Anne Brontë and Scarborough","authors":"E. Chitham","doi":"10.1080/14748932.2021.1989799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1989799","url":null,"abstract":"It has been claimed that Anne Brontë could know little about the gentry and aristocracy since her experience was so limited. This essay shows that this was far from the case. Her life in five summers with the Robinsons has been called ‘a visit’, but altogether she spent a total of twenty-five weeks at Scarborough, almost half a year. During this time she met and observed the varied life of a busy town and its visitors, learning about the lives of a wide range of people. We are able to discover from the lists published in Scarborough newspapers the names of many of her neighbours, in some cases living in the same apartments. The row which has been called ‘Wood’s Lodgings’ was in fact shared between William Wood and Dr William Wilson. The row opposite was also, in the main, high-quality lodgings. Anne could observe their occupants as well. Some of the visitors she may have known, but others she had not previously met would have an influence on her writing.","PeriodicalId":42344,"journal":{"name":"Bronte Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"9 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59903624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}