Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2121626
A. Weiler
Abstract Although often considered subversive of religion, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) employs discrete biblical language and allusions to present a dissenting feminist historicist hermeneutics. As a daughter of reverend Patrick Brontë, Charlotte’s spiritual vision is particularly significant but overlooked due to her use of what I am calling a dialectical misdirection. I show how even the subversive statements towards Christian teachings articulate the moral philosophy that guides Jane’s decisions thus weaving together plot sequences to ultimately provide autonomy. Through typological assessment and a cultural critique of mid-century Evangelical doctrines, it appears Jane’s faith emboldens her resistance to systemic oppression.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2121628
M. Albassam
Abstract Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia, unlike her mature novels with their independent plain heroines, is dominated by female beauties who represent her imaginary aristocratic world. The desire for beauty that dominated Brontë’s early writings is abandoned in the tale ‘Henry Hastings’ (1839) and the heroine’s plainness comes to create a substitute for the image of female beauty. In considering Elizabeth Hasting’s plainness as a form of self-representation, this article challenges the perception of plainness as merely an indication of the heroine’s invisibility or more profoundly a reflection her interiority and morality. Instead, this paper explores the exteriority and subversiveness of Elizabeth’s plainness in the narrative. Plainness in ‘Henry Hastings’ is not only related to homeliness but also goes into the realm of plainness as a self-imposition, particularly through dress. The heroine’s beauty or on the other hand, her plainness, as I will argue, comes to offer different positions of making the self visible to the dominant male gaze in the late juvenilia.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2124699
C. Van der Meer
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2121627
Natalie Brown
Abstract Charlotte Brontë is closely associated today with Haworth Parsonage. Our identification of Brontë with Haworth, however, obscures the precarity of her hold on the Parsonage. Brontë’s occupancy was predicated upon her father’s employment as the perpetual curate of Haworth, and Brontë knew she would be forced to leave upon his death. This article argues that Brontë’s precarity as clergyman’s daughter whose shelter was contingent upon his employment explains the prominence she gives in Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853) to women who lack secure homes and their quests for permanent shelter. Attention to her preoccupation with permanent shelter reveals the difficulty of separating the emotional, familial and physical components of ‘home’ and allows readers to view her as writer more attuned to structural problems than scholarship emphasising her novels’ seemingly individual or class-complicit solutions sometimes recognizes.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2122381
Sara L. Pearson
sickbed to an empty bed with Helen as an angel flying in the sky. The fingerhole to slide someone’s arm up and down was the least convincing device. When you move his arm, is St. John waving? Jane’s arm moves a jug of water up and down in front of Rochester’s burning bed, but there is no sense of the water ‘splashing’ or moving to put out the fire, though there is the interesting visual element of roses scattered on the floor. Jane has emptied a vase of roses in order to use the water to extinguish the fire—another allusion to a film version. My favourite pull-tab is the one at the beginning of the story: pulling back a red curtain reveals Jane in a window seat. However, while the candelabra and rose-in-a-vase are there, there are no books. Jane is gazing thoughtfully at the starry night sky. The text tells us that she ‘love[s] to read and draw’, but in a book meant to engage children with reading literature, failing to portray Jane as a child reading a book is a missed opportunity. Despite these minor quibbles, I found the experience of reading this children’s adaptation to be rewarding. The book leads from image to thought, visually presenting a winding path leading to Thornfield Hall on the front cover that is, in the end, transformed into the winding stem of Jane’s final ‘thought bubble’ describing her contentment with marrying Mr Rochester. If you do feel compelled to introduce a child to the story of Jane Eyre before an encounter with Charlotte Bront€e’s novel, this book is definitely a recommended way of beginning the journey.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2121630
Valerie L. Stevens
Abstract This article considers how Tartar serves as a unique type of guard dog in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley. While we expect guard dogs to ward off burglars, Tartar uses protective fierceness to fortify Shirley’s home and body from unsought romantic invasions, necessary given her gender positioning. Sometimes Tartar’s judgement aligns with Shirley’s wishes, as when he helps to forcefully remove the insufferable Mr Donne from Shirley’s property. However, Tartar’s high valuation of Shirley’s eventual husband, Louis, while the heiress still resents the tutor reveals Tartar’s agency as he guides Shirley’s choices like a respected father. Once Tartar helps to bring Shirley and Louis together, Louis can then take over the paternal role of guardian. Brontë’s animals shape the marriage plot, allowing Tartar a powerful role within the text.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2122376
Sara L. Pearson
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