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Curiosity, surveillance and detection in Charlotte Bronte's villette Universiteit Gent
'The virgin soul': Anglo-French spectres of Emily Brontë, 1880-1920 Universiteit Gent
This essay studies Emily Brontë's afterlives in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century biographies. It shows the rise in Emily Brontë's popularity from the late nineteenth century onwards and demonstrates the rich cross-fertilization between British, Belgian and French accounts of her authorial persona. At the turn of the century, Emily became the subject of a cult that focused on her moral and inner life. She took preponderance over her ...
Brussel door buitenlandse ogen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Al staat Brussel begrijpelijkerwijze minder vaak in de schijnwerpers in de Engelstalige literatuur dan London of New York, toch inspireerde de stad sinds de 19e eeuw zowel bekende als minder bekende romanschrijvers uit het Engelse taalgebied. Inspelend op de maatschappelijke en literaire ontwikkelingen van hun tijd, beschrijven zij Brussel vanuit het perspectief van de Ander, hetzij bezoekers op doortocht of van expats die er geruimere tijd ...
'Sibling collaboration and literary after-life: the case of the Brontës' Universiteit Gent
Afterlives of the Brontës: biography, fiction and literary criticism Universiteit Gent
Afterlives of the Brontës revisits the Brontë myth by uncovering new details about the Brontës’ representations in biographies, art and criticism: how are the Brontës represented at different times, in different contexts and different media? It furthermore inquires into various perspectives on authorship: what do the Brontës’ afterlives tell us about the figure of the author, traditionally portrayed as a single entity or literary genius? ...
From “Sepulchral City” to “Open City”: Hetero-Images of Brussels in Joseph Conrad and Teju Cole Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Although Brussels does not figure as prominently in literature in English as do the more iconic cosmopolitan cities of London and New York, when the flâneur-narrator of Open City (2011) keeps up his ambulatory habits in the Belgian capital during a brief holiday from his psychiatry residency at a Manhattan hospital, Teju Cole joins a long line of authors from across the world who have drawn inspiration from Brussels (Acke and Bekers, eds., ...
Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox as Bluebeard Gothic Universiteit Gent
Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel Mr. Fox (2011) has been labeled by reviewers as a “bold departure from her earlier works” (Masters 2011) or as a “move in a perplexing [new] direction” (McClements 2011) because the subject of race and marginalization is, arguably, less prominently featured here than in her previous three novels – The Icarus Girl (2005), The Opposite House (2007), and White is for Witching (2009). However, I argue in this paper that ...
Van “Brilliant Little Capital” tot “Open City” Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels may not feature as prominently in literature in English as do London and New York, but it, too, has been a source of inspiration for anglophone authors from across the world since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this article I consider the canonical texts of British authors William Thackeray (Vanity Fair, 1848), Charlotte Brontë (Villette, 1853) and Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, 1899/1902) as well as the more recent texts ...