Another thesis recently published:
by Felicitas María González Calvo, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, 2021
Religion is a central theme in both The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. The two novels, although seemingly unconnected, share a strikingly similar plot and moralist intent, but they differ in their portrayal of religion and in their treatment of legal and moral issues related to women. This study analyses how religion affects the way both novels address concerns about women’s intellectual, moral, and legal autonomy, and in the solutions they propose. First, it addresses the religious context and events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England, and the way this context influenced Wollstonecraft and Brontë’s conception of religion. Then, it analyses how religion is portrayed in both novels, how it affects the treatment of marriage and divorce laws, and how the moral progression of the characters is depicted. Lastly, it examines the critical response to both works at the time of their publication, and how the religious and moral elements were perceived by the critics.
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