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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 12:30 am by M. in , ,    No comments

A couple of new Brontë-related dissertations:

Catherine Earnshaw and Helen Huntingdon - Women's marital struggles in Victorian England as presented in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Jagoda Olszanecka 
Advisor: Anna Paluchowska-Messing 
2022
Jagielloniani University Repository, Poland

The dissertation focuses on the characters of Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Helen Huntingdon from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the two women’s marital struggles and investigate the characters of Catherine and Helen as products and victims of the patriarchal society of Victorian England. The first chapter constitutes a theoretical part and its objective is to provide background knowledge about the Victorian age, with special focus on the position of women in the society and family, and on their rights. Moreover, it introduces the Brontë sisters as women writers contributing to “The Woman Question” and creating progressive novels. The analytical part of the work - the second and the third chapter - centres on the close study of the characters of Catherine and Helen. It discusses the influence of the patriarchal society, as well as the existing laws and traditions on those women and their choices pertaining to marriage along with the consequences of those choices.
Paesaggi, luoghi, identità in Cime tempestose: una mappatura geocritica del romanzo di Emily Brontë
Luna Gaspari
2021
Università degli Studi di Padova

Quando ci si immerge nella lettura di un testo, sia esso un romanzo, una poesia o un altro genere letterario, si viene catapultati nel mondo che l’autore ha scelto di rappresentare. Il lettore è trasportato in un luogo diverso da quello in cui sta leggendo, immaginando ambienti nuovi, a volte anche sconosciuti, luoghi in cui non è mai stato prima. Scegliere l’ambientazione in cui collocare le vicende narrate, e quindi l’aspetto geografico, è essenziale nella letteratura, perché permette di collocare in uno o più luoghi le avventure dei personaggi, ma anche di influenzare le loro azioni e plasmare le loro identità.





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