Jane Eyre's American Daughters: From The Wide, Wide World to Anne of Green Gables : a Study of Marginalized Maidens and what They MeanUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 368 páginas Jane Eyre's American Daughters is about the influence of Charlotte Bronte's romance on North American writers, including Susan Warner, Louisa May Alcott, Martha Finley, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Jean Webster, Eleanor Porter, and L M Montgomery. John Seelye demonstrates that the reception of Bronte's Gothic romance in America was filtered through Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of the author, published shortly after her friend's death in 1855. A sentimental classic in its day, Gaskell's book promoted an image of Charlotte as a long-suffering creative genius with high moral standards. Her biography necessarily overlooked Bronte's obsessive love for her Belgian professor. Constantin Heger, an older and married man. Though Heger did not return Charlotte's affection, he was the model for the lovers in Bronte's novels, including the passionate, adulterous Edward Rochester, who inspired censorious reviews questioning the moral character of the author when Jane Eyre was published in 1847, a reputation that Gaskell's biography successfully countered. |
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All the Rage Repressed Anger Riels the Plot | 42 |
A Man on Horseback Per Versions of the Masculine | 62 |
A Sentimental Education Susan Warners The Wide Wide World and the Christian Crux | 91 |
Painful Matters The Wide Wide Underworld in Warners Book and Its Sequel Elsie Dinsmore | 113 |
Whispers from the Dark Louisa May Alcott and the Brontean Connection | 139 |
The Mad Girl in the Attic Rebellion as a Fine Art in Little Women | 162 |
The Glad Boy in the Castle Frances Hodgson Burnett and the Brontean Dis Connection | 191 |
The Glad Girl in the Garden Frances Hodgsons Spirituel Autobiography | 235 |
The Bad Girl in the Garden A Rose Is More than a Rose in Burnetts Green World | 253 |
Lighting Aladdins Lamp Kate Douglas Wiggin Adds Laughter to the Sentimental Continuity | 274 |
Love Stories Jean Websters Epistolary Experiment in Education and Eros | 303 |
Kissing Cinderella Goodbye Unfairytale Elements in Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables | 325 |
Afterword | 341 |
Bibliography | 349 |
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