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Sublimity & The Bronte Men: An Exploration of Heathcliff & Rochester Through Edmund Burke's Sublime.
Description
The Brontë sisters, inadvertently, created two characters overwhelmingly offensive to the modern reader. However, I think it is time that we as readers diverge from the well-trodden path of literary analyses concerning Rochester and Heathcliff. By limiting these two characters to only their most surface-level qualities, and passing moral judgments on them as if they are somehow failing some expectation of moral behavior, these two characters are denigrated to the titles of “bad characters” or “bad men.” I propose a reading of Heathcliff and Rochester that transcends the confining rhetoric of good vs. bad and looks to Heathcliff and Rochester as agents of the sublime as defined by Edmund Burke in his foundational text A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origin of Our Ideas of The Sublime and Beautiful.
Date Created
2024-05
Contributors
- Weiland, Madeline (Author)
- Soares, Rebecca (Thesis director)
- Foy, Joseph (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (Contributor)
- Department of English (Contributor)
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Extent
30 pages
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In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Series
Academic Year 2023-2024
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.191886
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- 2024-03-24 11:05:37
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- 2024-03-28 12:27:53
- 7 months 3 weeks ago
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