Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as Bilgungsroman

A Master's Dissertation recently published:

Jane Eyre (1947) and Wuthering Heights (1847) as Bildungsroman: A Comparative Analysis
Helena Cano Gámez
Universidad de Jaén. Filología Inglesa

[EN]The aim of this Master’s Dissertation is to study two of the most renown novels from the Victorian era, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, as novels of development or Bildungsroman. A comparative analysis on the protagonists’ psychological and moral development, focusing on the typical devices found in Bildungsroman will be provided. The main subject matters that will be developed in this essay are the characters’ origins and their families, social class and class mobility, love relationships and personalities.