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1	Social Performance and Reticence: Mental Negotiations in Austen, Brontë, and Eliot Spencer, Meredith L 01 January 2015 (has links) This thesis examines how three nineteenth-century British novels purvey and critique contemporary standards regarding social performance and reticence and the strains such standards place on those whose dispositions disincline them to conform to the regulations for decorum articulated in conduct books of the time. Utilizing the psychological lens of introversion and extroversion alongside the cognitive narrative theories of Alan Palmer and Lisa Zunshine, this thesis investigates the construction of individual character identities through the reading of interactions among multiple fictional minds in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860). social performance reticence introversion extroversion Lucy Snowe Darcy Jane Bennett Philip Wakem English Language and Literature
2	"<i>My own still shadow-world</i>" : melancholy and feminine intermediacy in Charlotte Brontë's <i>Villette</i> Machuca, Daniela 10 July 2007 Lucy Snowe, the heroine of <i>Villette</i>, Charlotte Brontës final novel, is in constant conflict with the dichotomies of patriarchal culture. As she is perpetually torn between the opposing forces of patriarchy, Lucy Snowe inhabits what she calls her own <i>still shadow-world</i> (Brontë164). This thesis explains the nature of the intermediate space Lucy Snowe occupies and examines its repercussions on her mental state. Chapter One theorizes the effect of patriarchal dichotomies on Lucy Snowe to demonstrate that her mental conflict has its roots in the female experience of the opposition between nature and culture. Chapter Twos analysis of the nineteenth-century medical understanding of madness shows that Lucy Snowes melancholy is a symptom of the intermediacy created by conflicting patriarchal expectations. Chapter Three compares Lucy Snowe to the female figure in patriarchal master narratives, which draws attention to the serious consequences of patriarchal culture on women and demonstrates that Lucy is representative of women in conflict with patriarchal expectations. Ultimately, as part of Charlotte Brontës endeavor to represent truth rather than reality, Villette challenges patriarchal expectations of women and presents a different vision of womanhood. gender reason imagination insanity female artist binary intermediacy patriarchy Villette Lucy Snowe Charlotte Bronte madness melancholy nature culture repression Victorian
3	"<i>My own still shadow-world</i>" : melancholy and feminine intermediacy in Charlotte Brontë's <i>Villette</i> Machuca, Daniela 10 July 2007 (has links) Lucy Snowe, the heroine of <i>Villette</i>, Charlotte Brontës final novel, is in constant conflict with the dichotomies of patriarchal culture. As she is perpetually torn between the opposing forces of patriarchy, Lucy Snowe inhabits what she calls her own <i>still shadow-world</i> (Brontë164). This thesis explains the nature of the intermediate space Lucy Snowe occupies and examines its repercussions on her mental state. Chapter One theorizes the effect of patriarchal dichotomies on Lucy Snowe to demonstrate that her mental conflict has its roots in the female experience of the opposition between nature and culture. Chapter Twos analysis of the nineteenth-century medical understanding of madness shows that Lucy Snowes melancholy is a symptom of the intermediacy created by conflicting patriarchal expectations. Chapter Three compares Lucy Snowe to the female figure in patriarchal master narratives, which draws attention to the serious consequences of patriarchal culture on women and demonstrates that Lucy is representative of women in conflict with patriarchal expectations. Ultimately, as part of Charlotte Brontës endeavor to represent truth rather than reality, Villette challenges patriarchal expectations of women and presents a different vision of womanhood. gender reason imagination insanity female artist binary intermediacy patriarchy Villette Lucy Snowe Charlotte Bronte madness melancholy nature culture repression Victorian
4	"Leave Sunny Imaginations Hope": The Fate of Three Women in Charlotte Bronte's Villette Wynne, Hayley January 2010 (has links) No description available. Gender Studies Literature Charlotte Bronte Villette narrative conclusions feminist reading marriage marriage plot spinster Lucy Snowe Paulina Home Ginevra Fawnshawe

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