A new master thesis at the Institutt for språk og litteratur (NTNU) in Norway:
Ragnhild Hermann
Institutt for språk og litteratur, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2025
This thesis examines the role of textiles as literary tools for the development of characters, setting, and narrative devices in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1854-55). The aim is to demonstrate that although an understudied field, textile details are valuable and important to consider in terms of literary analysis. The settings of the red-room of Gateshead Hall and the drawing room of the Thornton residence, the characters of Margaret Hale, Jane Eyre, and Blanche Ingram, and the prominence of the Lowood school uniforms and the background roles of cotton and linen in the town of Milton are the main topics of discussion. Historical investigation and perspectives on gender, class, and other social structures have been utilised to assess the validity and importance of instances in the novels where textiles have been employed to help development of characterisation and setting.
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