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Title: | ‘A brilliancy of their own’: Female art, beauty and sexuality in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre |
Authors: | Ioannou, Maria |
Major Field of Science: | Humanities |
Field Category: | Arts |
Keywords: | Αrt;Beauty;Female sexuality;Gender;Jane Eyre;Victorian periodicals |
Issue Date: | 2-Oct-2018 |
Source: | Bronte Studies, 2018, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 323-334 |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start page: | 323 |
End page: | 334 |
Journal: | Bronte Studies |
Abstract: | This article studies the portraits of Rosamond Oliver and Blanche Ingram in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, to argue that, first, the portraits participate in the nineteenth-century dialogue about women in art and, second, capture Jane’s convictions on the theme of sexual love. This is especially so in the case of Rosamond’s miniature, which comes at a point where Jane has resolved to choose a sexual union rather than a loveless marriage. In an important sense, Jane is Rosamond; the subject (artist) identifies with the object (model) in an equation of female beauty with agency and capacity for sexual feeling. |
ISSN: | 14748932 |
DOI: | 10.1080/14748932.2018.1502993 |
Rights: | © The Brontë Society. |
Type: | Article |
Affiliation : | University of Exeter Cyprus University of Technology |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Άρθρα/Articles |
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