عنوان

Needy Narrator and Sympathetic Reader: The Critique of Gender Convention and Narrator-Reader Tradition in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

شماره

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عنوان اصلي

Needy Narrator and Sympathetic Reader: The Critique of Gender Convention and Narrator-Reader Tradition in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Lo, Stephanie

متن يادداشت

This thesis addresses how Charlotte Brontë's Villette creates a sympathetic economy that challenges nineteenth-century English gender convention and first-person novelistic narrator-reader tradition. It posits that Brontë's social critique of gender convention in nineteenth-century England is related to her novelistic critique of narrator-reader tradition in first-person novels. In the same way that gender convention dictates the context in which social sympathy should be felt thereby perpetuating gendered power relationships, novelistic tradition also dictates the context in which readerly sympathy should be felt and also endorses a power relationship between narrator and reader. However, this thesis concludes that Brontë's creation of a contentious and oppositional narrator in Villette ultimately reverses this latter power relationship between narrator and reader.

تاريخ نشر

2012

عنوان

Berkeley Undergraduate Journal

شماره جلد

25/2

عنصر شناسه اي

Lo, Stephanie

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y