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Moors, Mansions, and Museums

Transgressing Gendered Spaces in Novels of the Brontë Sisters

by Zuzanna Jakubowski (Author)
©2010 Thesis 122 Pages

Summary

The works of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë are saturated with spatial metaphors, their composition inevitably reflecting Victorian concepts of gender and the ideology of ‘separate spheres’. Questioning the binary interpretation of incarceration and flight, this study focuses on how, through a transgression of narrated, textual, and metaphorical spaces, the Brontës’ feminine protagonists show the ideological divide between male and female spaces to be more permeable than previously acknowledged. Applying the spatial concepts of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, this study examines how the normative dichotomy of the ‘separate spheres’ in the selected novels is destabilized through a transgression of literary spaces.

Details

Pages
122
Publication Year
2010
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631596920
Language
English
Keywords
spatial turn gender Foucault, Michel Deleuze, Gilles
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 121 pp.

Biographical notes

Zuzanna Jakubowski (Author)

The Author: Zuzanna Jakubowski has studied English and Comparative Literature at the University of Potsdam and the University of Southampton (UK). She is currently a doctoral student at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

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