BrontëBlog

A couple of Brontë-related recently published papers:

Sabelko, Katelyn (2018) "Recasting the Garden: Anne Brontë’s Subversion of the Victorian Garden Trope in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/tor/vol20/iss1/3

In Victorian fiction, the garden was carefully constructed as a space that both contained women within the “private sphere” of the home and acted as a metaphor for the ideal Victorian home and family. In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, however, Anne Brontë utilizes the Wildfell garden to challenge the association of women and mothers with stainless purity, domestic submissiveness, and feebleness—all Victorian ideals of womanhood that fictional gardens of the period worked to reinforce. Using a familiar trope that her readers would have come to expect, Brontë “recasts” the garden in Tenant. To quell the garden’s limiting power over Victorian women, Brontë crafts her protagonist as self-reliant and subversive, intentionally using the garden to augment, not inhibit, Helen’s social status and independence outside of her husband’s jurisdiction and power. 

Fantasy Art and Studies 4: "Victorian roots/Racines victoriennes"

Les Têtes Imaginaires
ISBN (papier): 9782901099000
ISBN (ebook): 9782901099017

Article
As Old as Time: Jane Eyre and the Power of the Gothic in Three Recent Fantasy Novels, by Caroline Duvezin-Caubet