Scholar overview

Some samples of recent scholar Brontë-related work:

A Costly Morality: Dependency Care and Mental Difference in the Novels of the Brontë Sisters
Paul Marchbanks
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Issue Volume 4, Number 1 / 2010 Pages 55-72

Abstract

The article investigates four fictional accounts of the complications involved in providing dependency care for one with a compromised mind—difficulties the authors knew well due to their father's decision to keep his alcohol- and opium-addicted son Branwell at home instead of institutionalizing him. Charlotte and Anne create fictional heroes who struggle to compassionately manage individuals dealing with drug addiction, mental illness, and cognitive disability, while Emily indicts the domestic sphere in the creation of such conditions.

A Comparison of Attitude toward Marriage between Charlotte Brontë and Zhang Ailing in their Works
WANG Yan,WANG Jinhua

Journal of North University of China(Social Science Edition) 2009-05

Zhang ailing and Charlotte Brontë are outstanding women writers in the history of modern Chinese and western literature.This article aims at disclosing the similarities and the differences of their attitudes toward marriage by comparing their different life experiences and attitudes toward life and analyzing their attitudes toward love reflected in their works.

On Charlotte Brontë's Ecological Feminist Consciousness from Fire Image in Jane Eyre
FAN Cai-xia
Journal of Changsha Normal College 2009-03

Charlotte Brontë is an expert in applying images to highlight themes of her novels. She chose "fire" image symbolizing punishment of evil and purification to repeatedly appear in Jane Eyre, which plays an important role in conveying the author's ecological feminist consciousness in the novel. The fire of love reflects the psychological impetus for female self- consciousness; the fire of blood consciousness represents the most natural feeling from the soul; the fire of nirvana is on behalf of the human pursuit of freedom.

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