Romanticism, true and pure love

A couple of recent Brontë-related paper and a talk:

Echoes of Romanticism and Expatriate Englishness in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor
David Sigler
Intertexts
University of Nebraska Press
Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 2023 pp. 30-59

Charlotte Brontë's many debts to Romanticism, and especially Lord Byron, are a well-known feature of her fiction. Yet only recently has this become an important part of the discussion surrounding The Professor, her first-written and last-published novel. The novel, written between 1844 and 1846 and published posthumously in 1857, is increasingly seen to be in dialogue with William Wordsworth and Walter Scott, in addition to Byron. Anna Barton, seeing Brontë as "the pupil of Wordsworthian Romanticism" and "a daughter of Romanticism," shows how The Professor develops "intertextual exchanges that perform the failure of the Romantic lyric within the Victorian novel." 

The role of multiculturalism in a foreign language teaching Conference: 

13th International Research Conference on Education, Language and Literature IRCEELT-2023

Mayu 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia.

The concept of true and pure love in Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”   

Manana Aslanishvili  (Georgian technical University, Georgia) 

The current research aims at studying true and pure love in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is considered to be one of the most prominent romantic novels of the nineteenth century. It was published under the pen name "Currer Bell" in October 1847. Charlotte Bronte has broken the traditional for the Victorian era stereotype of a female as charming, weak and dependent. In her novel she depicts the portrait of a ‘new woman’ who is absolutely independent and does not just submit herself to the norms of patriarchal setup. The concept of true and pure love is one of the central themes in Jane Eyre. Love in Bronte's understanding should be pure, perfect and true and cannot be measured by any jewels, riches, wealth, or position. Such sincere love is the necessary condition for a happy marriage. Marriage without love is lifeless and as Jane believes it should be based on romantic love. Bronte depicts her heroine Jane Eyre with all the disadvantages that nature and society can give her: she has no parents, no money, and, to make matters worse, she is not beautiful. However, she has a strong character and she will never do the things she is told to do. She demands from the world to be accepted as she is: not important, but being the heroine of her own life, not beautiful, but deserving love. At the time when women were denied access to education and excluded from political debate, the publication of Jane Eyre was like a breath of fresh air. Jane's fiery independent temperament and fearless conviction went against the traditional portrayal of women. Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a valuable contribution to English fiction which reflects aspects of early Victorian social and economic phenomena.