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‘A Still Ecstasy of Freedom and Enjoyment’: Walking the City in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
Journal of Victorian Culture ( IF 0.444 ) Pub Date : 2017-06-28 , DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2017.1336470
Charlotte Mathieson 1
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AbstractThis article situates Charlotte Bronte’s writing within the context of mid-nineteenth-century discourses of gender and travel, and posits that Bronte contributes to the discursive construct of the flâneuse through her writing about women walking the city in her letters from Belgium and in the novel Villette (1853). Through a critical framework drawing together literary historicism on women in the Victorian city and mobility theories of embodied and sensory movement, the analysis reveals how Bronte foregrounds the experience of the body in her writing of women walking, and uses this as a mode through which to explore gendered discourses of mobility, and especially women’s urban walking. It argues that Bronte offers a new model of female urban spectatorship which privileges the body of the flâneuse as the prime site of knowing the city; this positively reconfigures the possibilities for autonomy and agency that urban walking affords, while at the same time making the body a site through which ambiva...

中文翻译:

“自由和享受的狂喜”:在夏洛蒂勃朗特的维莱特中漫步城市

摘要本文将夏洛蒂勃朗特的写作置于 19 世纪中叶性别和旅行话语的语境中,并假定勃朗特通过她在比利时的信件和小说中关于女性在城市中行走的写作,对 flâneuse 的话语建构做出了贡献。维莱特 (1853)。通过将维多利亚时代女性的文学历史主义与身体和感官运动的移动理论结合在一起的批判性框架,分析揭示了勃朗特如何在她的女性行走写作中突出身体的体验,并将其作为一种模式,通过探索关于流动性的性别话语,尤其是女性的城市步行。它认为勃朗特提供了一种女性城市观众的新模式,它赋予了女性作为了解城市的主要场所的特权;
更新日期:2017-06-28
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