Reference
Conti, Maria. "'And this is her voice': The Nexus of Language and Power in Jane Eyre". The Sigma Tau Delta Review. 10:, (2013): 76-86.
Thesis statement
"By exploring Brontë’s negative opinion of Austen’s work, we can more clearly identify themes of Jane Eyre. In particular, a focus on voice and speech allows us to assess underlying differences between the heroines of Austen and Brontë. "
Necessary Background
"In a letter to the critic George Henry Lewes, Charlotte Brontë criticizes Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. She writes,
I got the book and studied it. And what did I find? An accurate daguerrotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy. (qtd. in Weisser 93)
Brontë rejects a romance novel devoid of passion. In “Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, and the Meaning of Love,” Susan Ostrov Weisser argues that Brontë especially scorned Austen’s mannerly, constrained approach to romance. Instead, Brontë incorporates elements of the Romantics into her definition of love in order to reconfigure women’s role in and experience of relationships (Weisser 98). Weisser suggests “the radical gap that Charlotte Brontë perceived between herself and Austen is a key to understanding
Charlotte’s own work” (93)."
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Title
“And this is her voice”: The Nexus of Language and Power in Jane Eyre
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2 comments:
I think I've read that too!
But I disagree with Bronte.
Maybe Austen's book is too sweet, but I like it and I think it has a important theme as well. Jane Eyre works harder than Elizabeth, but I think the theme(women's rights and the marriages that are done with the will of the couple themselves, etc.) is almost same.
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