Recent Scholarhip (I)

Recent Brontë-related scholar articles:

Ashly Bennett
Shameful Signification: Narrative and Feeling in Jane Eyre
Narrative - Volume 18, Number 3, October 2010, pp. 300-323
"For shame! for shame! … What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre." —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Is Jane Eyre the heroine of shame? Would such a reframing of the character famously dubbed the "heroine of fulfillment" constitute its own shamefully "shocking conduct"? Widely understood as a model of engaging and empowered female voice, Jane Eyre's distinctive "I" has often seemed bolstered, especially, by the emotional display and pull of that voice. Not just feeling, but specific feelings have captured critical attention, with anger and sympathy attaining pride of place in feminist assessments of Brontë's novel and of novelistic feeling in both Victorian and contemporary culture. From Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's influential reading of Jane Eyre's anger as exemplary of "rebellious feminism" to more recent critiques of the normalizing "triumph of sympathy" staged by the novel's end, the fraught yet potent agency, self-assertion, and emotional invitation of Jane Eyre's autobiographical narrative, and especially her voice, have been understood to thrive on anger... 

Gillett, R.
Emily Brontë Religious radical?
English Review, 2010, Vol 20; Numb 3, pp. 38-41

Crow, A.
Romanticism and Jane Eyre
English Review, 2010, Vol 21; Numb 1, pp. 26-28  Ian Brinton

Emily Brontë and Sir Walter Scott
The Use of English, 2009 Vol 60; Numb 2, pp. 111-116

P. Fletcher
Wuthering Heights and Lord David Cecil
The Use of English, 2009 Vol 60; Numb 2, pp.105-110

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