Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2214599
Sara L. Pearson
Abstract Anne Brontë was the only hymn-writer in her family, and her hymns have had a successful afterlife in multiple hymnals from 1858 to 1997. Her hymns have been used by a variety of religious denominations and sects, in numerous countries, among various groups of people, from children to university students to the sick and suffering. Although Charlotte Brontë’s selection of poems for the 1850 reissue of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was responsible for the publication of five of Anne’s seven published hymns, it was Anne’s own sensitivity to hymnody as a means of exploring religious faith that ensured her successful afterlife as a hymn writer. 1 Various digital and Internet resources such as Google Books, www.hymnary.org, and YouTube have made it possible to discover more about Anne as a hymn-writer, including the fact that her hymn ‘Believe not those who say’ has appeared in over sixty hymnals. This article provides an overview of the afterlife of Anne Brontë’s hymns with the hope of prompting further investigation into this topic. 2
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2209606
Ciara Glasscott
Abstract Despite the increasing criticism of her traditional critical and cultural reputation as the “third Brontë” in recent years, the underestimation of Anne Brontë’s philosophical and political engagement remains tenacious. This is especially relevant when it comes to scholarly work on her poetry, where biographical and/or religious critical frameworks dominate. By contrast, this article is interested in Brontë’s poetic intervention in Victorian debates surrounding political and aesthetic conceptions of the child and childhood. Brontë simultaneously deploys and subverts traditionally Romantic imagery, interrogating this mode most explicitly in later poems such as ‘Memory’, ‘Dreams’ and ‘Z-’s Dream’. In these mature pieces, Brontë undercuts the more conventional presentation of such topics in her earlier poems with a self-reflexive meditation on the authenticity of nostalgic visions. Therefore, Brontë’s engagement with childhood becomes more vexed over time, mirroring the more realist representation of childhood in her novels. However, Brontë’s poetic work also reveals a deeper and more conflicted identification with the Romantic aesthetic of childhood than one might imagine the writer of Agnes Grey (1847) could possess, providing access to a more complete picture of Brontë’s position on these essential questions of innocence, nostalgia and childhood.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2213266
Philippa Janu
Abstract The journey undertaken by the Victorian governess in the nineteenth-century novel is frequently aligned with the developmental narrative of the Bildungsroman. However, this article explores how the demands of instruction and surveillance, and the expectation that the governess is simultaneously authoritative and submissive, limit her growth and that of her pupils. An examination of Anne Brontë’s depiction of the repetitive and prosaic work of teaching in her 1847 novel Agnes Grey reveals that in demanding the critical engagement of the reader, the novel resists any expectation that either text or teacher are inherent repositories of knowledge. Finally, I argue that the rich development of the governess that is characteristic to the Bildungsroman can also be located in the marriage plot.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2246333
S. Powell
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Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2228159
Bob Duckett
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2230792
C. Van der Meer
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2023.2230797
C. Van der Meer
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