Industrial Brontes - Advocates for Womens Equality in a Turbulent Age

Informationen zum Autor Taten Shirley is director of interdisciplinary studies and associate professor of humanities at Faulkner University. Klappentext A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThis 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. Zusammenfassung The seven novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the change spurred on by the Industrial Revolution in order to argue—often obliquely but at times directly—for equality for women in the Victorian Age. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Taten Shirley
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781666904994
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-499-4
• Seiten: 148
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Feminism & feminist theory, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700