“A Somewhat Coarse Imitation”? The Transtextual Relationship between Anne Brontë and Jane Austen
(2024) ENGX54 20232English Studies
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Research on Anne Brontë’s novels, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, shows that she drew inspiration from various literary sources. Some reviewers and scholars have detected an affinity between Brontë’s and Jane Austen’s works but have not explored it in depth. I therefore close read Brontë’s novels and compare them to Austen’s, using Genette’s theory of transtextuality. Firstly, I discern an architextual kinship between the two authors. Secondly, I argue that Brontë’s novels contain what may be interpreted as intertextual and hypertextual echoes of Austen, which suggests a more direct influence than has hitherto been observed. Based on Bloom’s concept of the anxiety of influence and Gilbert and Gubar’s concept of the anxiety of... (More)
- Research on Anne Brontë’s novels, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, shows that she drew inspiration from various literary sources. Some reviewers and scholars have detected an affinity between Brontë’s and Jane Austen’s works but have not explored it in depth. I therefore close read Brontë’s novels and compare them to Austen’s, using Genette’s theory of transtextuality. Firstly, I discern an architextual kinship between the two authors. Secondly, I argue that Brontë’s novels contain what may be interpreted as intertextual and hypertextual echoes of Austen, which suggests a more direct influence than has hitherto been observed. Based on Bloom’s concept of the anxiety of influence and Gilbert and Gubar’s concept of the anxiety of authorship, I contend that Brontë and Austen’s relationship may be conceptualised as a creative conversation about heroines and marriage in realist fiction between an innovative literary daughter and her foremother. (Less)
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- author
- Olander, Louise LU
- supervisor
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- Cian Duffy LU
- organization
- course
- ENGX54 20232
- year
- 2024
- type
- L3 - Miscellaneous, Projetcs etc.
- subject
- keywords
- Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Austen, transtextuality, gynocriticism, anxiety of authorship, anxiety of influence
- language
- English
- id
- 9146745
- date added to LUP
- 2024-01-24 16:05:56
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- 2024-01-24 16:05:56
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