Primroses in the Porridge

A new scholarly book with Brontë-related content:

Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression

Edited by Kathryn Ready, David Sigler

Edinburgh University Press - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

ISBN  9781399507622

Published February 2024 (Hardback)

Women’s writing was a crucial part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic period, yet has not often been seen as part of that history. This collection shows how women writers fit into a tradition of Romanticism that recognizes transgressive sexuality as a defining feature. Building on recent research on the period’s sexual culture, it shows how women writers were theorizing perversions in their literary work and often leading transgressive sexual lives. In doing so, the collection also challenges current understandings of ‘transgression’ as a sexual category.

Chapter 11 is Primroses in the Porridge: Hareton Earnshaw’s Transgression against his Homosocial Family in Wuthering Heights by Chantel Lavoie,