Wednesday, 18 December 2013

The Profession of the Author: Abstraction, Advertising, and Jane Eyre


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

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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