An update of recent papers Brontë-related:
Augustin Trapenard
Authorizing Emily : the Production of an Author-Function in Charlotte Brontë's 1850 Edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
Études Anglaises - 60:1 (2007) 15-28
William Leung
Re-reading Edgar Linton and Wuthering Heights
English 57(217):4-38 (2008)
Abstract
This article explores the characterization of Edgar Linton in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. It attempts to debunk the negative conclusions about Edgar that have been almost taken for granted in commentary on the novel, arguing that this negativity is based on a partisan view of Brontë's aesthetic, intellectual, and ethical commitment. By vigorously engaging with entrenched ideological assumptions about Edgar, this article traces, through detailed analyses, Edgar's relationship with the two Catherines, revealing the sustained symbolic patterning that establishes Edgar as (at best) an agent of rejuvenative nature and civilized humanity. Furthermore, it is argued that the reinstatement of Edgar as the positive counterpart of Heathcliff clarifies the tragic dichotomy informing the novel's exploration of masculinity, family, and society. This dichotomy, in turn, reflects the tension generated by Brontë's conflicting Romantic sympathies.
王文惠 , 陈春生 Wang Wenhui, Chen Chunsheng
The Eco - feminism in Jane Eyre
Ya'an University Journal - February 2008
延安大学学报（社会科学版） 2008年02期
Abstract:
从生态女权主义的视角分析,夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作<简·爱>探索了女性和大自然之间特殊的关系,揭示了19世纪英国女性和自然资源遭受男性压迫和掠夺的悲剧事实.小说拒绝男性至上的二元对立的思维模式对女性和自然的统治和忽视,阐释了作者希望解放女性和自然,发展女性自我意识,构建一个两性完全平等、和谐生存的理想境界.小说中的生态女权主义思想完全弥补了前人在这一领域的不足,为以后的读者提供了广阔的生态思考空间.
Google Translation ->
Eco-feminism from the perspective of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece women and explore the special relationship between nature, and reveals the 19th century British female and male oppression and natural resources plundered by the tragedy of the facts .'s Refusal to male supremacy Binary mode of thinking of women and the rule of nature and neglect, the authors hope that the interpretation of the liberation of women and nature, the development of female self-awareness, to build a full gender equality and harmonious existence of the ideal state. Novels in the Eco-feminist thinking of their predecessors entirely make up for the shortage in this area for future readers provide a broad ecological thinking space.
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An update of recent papers Brontë-related:
March 29, 1906
ReplyDeleteThis little essay by me about the Brontes appeared in the Times Review of March 31, 1906: (clipped article follows:) The Bronte Sisters. New York Times Saturday Review of Books:
There is an interest peculiarly fascinating about the Brontes. It recurred to me the other day in taking up a book concerning them. It is not my purpose here to discuss their works. There are those who deprecate their lack of art and somewhat else; others prize them as a touchstone of literary excellence. It may justly be said that they form an unexpected, a strange and significant tour de force. But the interest mentioned is heightened, I fancy, by a certain morbidity and by the tragic, hopeless struggle experienced by every one of the family against compelling facts. And herein, and considering the conditions, I wish to dissent from current estimates and animadversions. I believe Anne should be placed a little higher up, and a more creditable niche given to Branwell.
The wide and deserved attention paid to Charlotte has shadowed the others to a degree; yet I have always admired Emily, the more perhaps because, while less expansive and productive than her sister, she strikes me as being the deeper, the mysterious and high-strung witch of that moorland household. Moreover, and I desire to emphasize this, she adhered loyally, without complaining, to her brother Branwell through all his failings, with a kind of comprehensive human sympathy and reticence that in itself betokens real greatness. And her devotion is reflected in the superiority of her work.
There is something unfair and undigested about hard and fast moral or critical judgments. How little do we know ourselves, much less do we know our fellows; what equipment, natural or acquired, they have for the task of life, what depths they peer into, what difficulties they have to master and overcome, what hills or mountains or heavens to climb! Obviously, marked differences characterize individuals and work out variously. They must necessarily at times run counter to ordinary standards of respectability and success. I confess that I am often absorbed in the careers of those whom the coarse world regards as failures, for they serve relatively important purposes, however subtle and undiscerned. Indignation seldom does much good; it usually leaves behind it a feeling of false notes. Let us have the true notes - the story unvarnished; if it will out; but look on the result dispassionately, consider without prejudice or short-sightedness and graciously report or be silent. Condemn nothing unless you are sure you have the divine vision. And I do not see so much danger in accepting when God accepts.
Emily Bronte and the Deity tolerated Branwell, and I am inclined to back Emily and the Deity against Charlotte, with her almost commonplace moral preachments; against Augustine Birrell, who captiously has "no use for this young man," and Clement K. Shorter, with his conventional denunciation of the brother and weakness for the sisters three. They are all entertaining, admirable critics, only I prefer not to fulminate over the sphinxlike face of man. I prefer the way of Emily and the Deity.
E. M.
Jersey City, N. J., March 29, 1906.