ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Unreliable Narrator, Putting-Out System, Robert Earnshaw
Document Summary
Bronte was friends with elizabeth gaskell and taught her how to be a woman author and bring her into literary society. Childhood marked by tragedy all three bronte sisters died before they were 30. This novel is her only one gothic novel. Edited jane eyre under the name currer bell (first female bildungsroman) Victorian gothic tends to be set in the present or near past. 1802: novel ends when lockwood returns to wuthering heights. 1803: there will be a wedding on new year"s day. Allows for a little defamiliarization and also allows to be familiar set where the. 19th century gothic is domesticated both cathys are trapped. Victorian gothic takes place in the house, in england. Focuses on women who are entrapped in domestic spaces and oppressed by patriarchal authority. Their attempts to subvert and escape this oppression are dangerous and transgressive.
