BeyondThe Brontë Myth: Jane Eyre, Hannah Cullwick and Subjectivity in Servitude

Autor:	Deirdre d’Albertis
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Literature Oppression Subjectivity Emancipation Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Trope (literature) Biography Mythology Art Servant Narrative business media_common
Zdroj:	Brontë Studies. 39:267-278
ISSN:	1745-8226 1474-8932
DOI:	10.1179/1474893214z.000000000123
Popis:	Close analysis of the trope of servitude, central to the imaginative world of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and working-class diarist Hannah Cullwick, reveals the challenge as well as the promise of reading these two figures in tandem. Uncoupling the link between will and servitude as one which resulted necessarily in a state either of oppression or emancipation, this essay traces a literary subjectivity largely unaccounted for by The Bronte Myth. Both Cullwick’s diaries and Jane Eyre’s narrative autobiography acknowledge and actively construct servitude as a complex performance of the desire for recognition between master and servant. This desire is deeply rooted in the texts, as well as in the narrating subjects themselves.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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