Scholar Brontës

Recent scholar papers Brontë related:

Portraits of the Girl-Child: Female Bildungsroman in Victorian Fiction
Sarah E. Maier, University of New Brunswick
Literature Compass
Volume 4 Issue 1, Pages 317 - 335 (January 2007)

Abstract

This article explores the origins and traditional conventions of the literary bildungsroman and investigates the possibility of a female bildungsroman in the Victorian novels Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë and Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot. These novels paint literary portraits of the physical, educational and intellectual growth of two Victorian girl-children into womanhood whose experiences are explored to determine to what extent the construction of the child subject in fiction shapes the women whom the characters, Jane and Maggie, become; further, theories of the genre are considered, as well as the alterations required to the bildungsroman paradigm in its application to female characters.

An Indonesian publication:

EKSISTENSI PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL JANE EYRE KARYA CHARLOTTE BRONTE (TINJAUAN KRITIK SASTRA FEMINIS) (Women Existence in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Feminist Literary Criticism Approach))
Rasiah, Siti Chamamah Soeratno
Humanika, Vol 19, No 2 (2006)

Abstract

This study sets two objectives; theoretical and practical objectives. The first objective is to investigate the women existence in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre based on Feminist Literary Criticsm. This approach is expected to en-able the interpretation of Charlott Bronte's novel, wich showes the women's struggle in achieving her existence in life. The existence in this study means women exist if she can be able to act, to be and to plan her life, realesed from oppression and dominaton. The second objective is expected to be the source of information about the existence of women in Victorian culture and the role of literature in reconstructing culture which bound women.
The result showes that women picture and potention in Jane Eyre indicates that women has existed as human being in exact meaning. Women could be able to exist as independent subject, realized from domination of others. Education has realized women position as independent subject. Education is to be powerful medium in increasing women's self-qualities, either for intellectual and personality. Therefore, the existence of women in society are considered, particulary in her position as human being.

On Finding the Balance between Earth and Sky: Jeanette Winterson, Charlotte Brontë, and the "Bluebeard" Tale Heta Pyrhönen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Contemporary Women's Writing 2008 2(1):50-69; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn001

Jeanette Winterson's debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), is one of the most notable postmodern rewritings of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847).1 Winterson acknowledges her debt to Brontë on the novel's first page, and throughout, manifold intertextual links are obvious. Both novels are fictional autobiographies focusing on a young woman's Bildung narrative. Winterson, however, departs from the heterosexual romance of Jane Eyre by replacing Jane's love for Mr. Rochester with the love of a heroine having the same first name as the author—Jeanette—for Melanie. While this change surely is significant, what unites the novels is their shared emphasis on the religious and spiritual dimensions of love. Jane believes that she is called to serve God as Rochester's wife; Jeanette too must decide what role God plays in matters of the heart.

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