Theology in a Bildungsroman

More scholar books with Brontë content:

Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Rebecca Styler, University of Lincoln, UK

* Series : The Nineteenth Century Series
* Imprint: Ashgate
* Published: November 2010
* ISBN: 978-0-7546-6735-3* Rebecca Styler
Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres. Through these, they questioned the Christian tradition relative to contemporary concerns about political ethics, gender identity, and personal meaning. Among Styler's subjects are novels by Emma Worboise; writers of collective biography, including Anna Jameson and Clara Balfour, who study Bible women in order to address contemporary concerns about 'The Woman Question'; poetry by Anne Brontë; and political writing by Harriet Martineau and Josephine Butler.
As Styler considers the ways in which each writer negotiates the gender constraints and opportunities that are available to her religious setting and literary genre, she shows the varying degrees of frustration which these writers express with the inadequacy of received religion to meet their personal and ethical needs. All find resources within that tradition, and within their experience, to reconfigure Christianity in creative, and more earth-oriented ways.

"Romance, reason and reality in Anne Brontë's poetry" is the name of the chapter devoted to the Brontës.

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman
by Giovanna Summerfield
by Lisa Downward

* Imprint: Continuum
* Pub. date: 14 Oct 2010
* ISBN: 9780826434302

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman reflects the change in direction of research on the Bildungsroman, focusing on more psychological, authorial and feminist contents.
Departing from the father of the prototype of the genre, Goethe, the authors trace imperative pathways to its French, British, and Italian counterparts, examining spiritual and female Bildungsromane. A wide-ranging analysis provides fresh insights into the genre through comparative analyses of Bildungsromane both diatopically and diachronically, while critical analysis of novels such as Voltaire’s Candide, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Collodi’s Pinocchio, Aleramo’s Una donna present new readings of the characters, plots and purposes of the most famous European novels.

Including: Female Developments in the Nineteenth Century: Neera’s Teresa, Lydia and L’indomani, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by Lisa Downward.

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