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"Mother, I Will": Female Subjectivity And Religious Vision In The Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott
"Mother, I Will": Female Subjectivity And Religious Vision In The Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë have long attracted sustained critical attention, in
large part because of their strong female protagonists. These strong-willed women self-assuredly reject oppression and model new paradigms for the Victorian woman to empower her subjectivity. This subjectivity serves, in turn, not only as the ability to form and express views counter to outworn social prescriptions, but it also serves as the centralized interior focus that allows their protagonists to think of themselves as the foremost subjects of their lives, rather than see themselves as pawns to be moved about in the games of patriarchal hierarchy. This study …