The Tenant of Wildfell HallEl künstlerroman femenino como modelo didáctico en la literatura inglesa

  1. Bobadilla Pérez, María 1
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

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Journal:
Oceánide

ISSN: 1989-6328

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 14

Pages: 51-57

Type: Article

DOI: 10.37668/OCEANIDE.V14I.96 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This article analyses Anne Brönte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), considering the didactic purpose aimed by the author and resorting to one of the main literary genres of the nineteenth century, the künstlerroman or novel of the artist. The aim here is to highlight the relevance of the least acknowledged of the Brönte sisters, following the path opened by Hirsh and Langland (1983), Losano (2003) or Ellis (2017). Even though the traditional development novel is essentially masculine, where the artist secludes himself in his “ivory tower”, this is not the case in this work, where the feminine heroine must find a balance between her duties as a woman and her artistic passion. What is more, in this novel Anne Brönte manages to articulate the protagonist’s internal struggle as a subtle transgression of the nineteenth-century constricted society. In order to examine this defiant model which Helen, the female protagonist, personifies, bildungsroman and künstlerroman narratives will be briefly introduced. Next, the most relevant structural and textual elements pertaining to the representation of the female artist will be analysed in order to, finally, validate the initial thesis.

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