The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women’s Equality in a Turbulent Age
Autor Taten Shirleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 mar 2023
This book addresses the ways in which Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the rapid change of their time unleashed by the Industrial Revolution in order to illustrate the inequalities women faced in the Victorian Age. It historically contextualizes all seven novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor, in order to investigate the themes of marriage, education, class, and work. Specifically, the author examines the ways the Brontë sisters decenter marriage, call for equality in education, expose the inherent dignity of humans despite class differences, and demonstrate the ways in which increased work opportunities empowered women. Ultimately, the author argues that the Brontë sisters' call for female empowerment was symptomatic of the age, and one that is realized in the latter half of the Victorian Age and beyond.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781666904994
ISBN-10: 1666904996
Pagini: 148
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1666904996
Pagini: 148
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction
Section I: Decentering Marriage
Chapter 1: Subverting the Separate Spheres Doctrine
Chapter 2: Resisting Control and Maintaining Agency
Chapter 3: Rejecting Marriage as a Means to an End
Section I: Conclusion
Section II: Education as the Answer
Chapter 4: The Pitfalls of the Education of a Victorian Male
Chapter 5: A Call for Equal Education
Section II Conclusion
Section III: Challenging Class Assumptions
Chapter 6: The Governess's Paradox
Chapter 7: Transcending Class in Wuthering Heights
Chapter 8: Class Compromise in Shirley
Section III Conclusion
Section IV: Work as an Equalizer
Chapter 9: Subverting Gender Roles
Chapter 10: Work as Empowering
Chapter 11: The Dignity of Work
Section IV Conclusion
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
Section I: Decentering Marriage
Chapter 1: Subverting the Separate Spheres Doctrine
Chapter 2: Resisting Control and Maintaining Agency
Chapter 3: Rejecting Marriage as a Means to an End
Section I: Conclusion
Section II: Education as the Answer
Chapter 4: The Pitfalls of the Education of a Victorian Male
Chapter 5: A Call for Equal Education
Section II Conclusion
Section III: Challenging Class Assumptions
Chapter 6: The Governess's Paradox
Chapter 7: Transcending Class in Wuthering Heights
Chapter 8: Class Compromise in Shirley
Section III Conclusion
Section IV: Work as an Equalizer
Chapter 9: Subverting Gender Roles
Chapter 10: Work as Empowering
Chapter 11: The Dignity of Work
Section IV Conclusion
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
Recenzii
The three Brontë sisters-Charlotte (1816-55), Emily (1818-48), Anne (1820-49)-between them wrote a total of seven novels. Whether the siblings discussed the effects of the industrial revolution one cannot know, but their fiction reveals a profound interest in the social changes it brought on. Their books ask how women can achieve agency. The answer is brought to the fore in complex novels that show protagonists who saw beyond love and marriage to the enriching possibilities of education and work. By 1855 the sisters were all dead, but their writings lived on and helped bring about social change. In 1904 Virginia Woolf visited the Brontë home on the moors: their knicknacks did not speak to her, but the novels still did. Over time scholarship has enriched understanding of the dark truths of Victorian change. This book is easy to read and well researched, and it includes useful chapter notes in addition to the customary scholarly apparatus. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Taten Shirley's The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women's Equality in a Turbulent Age admirably serves an instructive purpose for undergraduates and general readers seeking accurate knowledge of the Victorian era and jargon-free thematic discussions of gender in the Brontë sisters' novels.
Taten Shirley's The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women's Equality in a Turbulent Age admirably serves an instructive purpose for undergraduates and general readers seeking accurate knowledge of the Victorian era and jargon-free thematic discussions of gender in the Brontë sisters' novels.