Thesis
Bronte's career as Currer Bell, like Jane Eyre's as Jane Elliott, transformed pseudonymity into a form of veiled self-advertisement, into a strategy for disowning the difficulties of female embodiment by exploiting the powers of abstraction.
Background
Sharon, Marcus. " The Profession of the Author: Abstraction, Advertising, and Jane Eyre", PMLA, 110:2(Mar., 1995): 206-219
Bronte's career as Currer Bell, like Jane Eyre's as Jane Elliott, transformed pseudonymity into a form of veiled self-advertisement, into a strategy for disowning the difficulties of female embodiment by exploiting the powers of abstraction.
Background
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and Currer Bell
all publish under cover of a veiled visibility that exploits print's erasure of
the author's body to authorize women's professional participation in a market.
Sharon, Marcus. " The Profession of the Author: Abstraction, Advertising, and Jane Eyre", PMLA, 110:2(Mar., 1995): 206-219
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