ENGL1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spv Gmbh, Bildungsroman, Empiricism
Jane Eyre – Realism and Imperialism
An autobiography
• 1847 – pulished uder a’s ae
• High Victorian period – 10 years after Victoria on throne
Realist Novel
• Individual character
• Empiricist – focus of facts and experiences
• Mirror life and coherent subjectivity
Handbook:
• Inner thoughts and feelings
• Free subjects acting in the real world
• Able to decide their own fates
Portraits of the Girl-Child:
• Conservative for a man
• Revolutionary for women
• Entrance into life is marked by marriage
• Subordination to the patriarchal system
Bildungsroman:
• Masculine
• Growth from child to adult
• Rejects but needs to temper
• Passive subjectivity
• Accept or reject for model for own behaviour
• Marriage plot
• Self-hood in social norms
• On consent – a’t gie util you ko ho you are as a idiidual
• First-person
• Pedagogical focus – governess only mode of career open to her
• Isolated – beneath and above both worlds
• Orphaned and isolated
• Teacher and student – back and forth between roles
• End fully assumes teacher position
Marriage Plot:
• Marriage of convenience – transfer of property between families (economic and social
contract, not about the individuals)
• Companionate marriage – self-supporting, like should marry like, desires should be aligned,
women as property
o Naturalize romantic love
o Marriage regulates sexual desire – some are normalized, some are demonized
o Homosexuality marginalized
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