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“A Somewhat Coarse Imitation”? The Transtextual Relationship between Anne Brontë and Jane Austen

Olander, Louise LU (2024) ENGX54 20232
English 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
organization
course
ENGX54 20232
year
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
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9146745
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2024-01-24 16:05:56
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2024-01-24 16:05:56
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  abstract     = {{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.}},
  author       = {{Olander, Louise}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{“A Somewhat Coarse Imitation”? The Transtextual Relationship between Anne Brontë and Jane Austen}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}