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Protofeminist Criticism of Women’s Role in the Victorian Period: A Systemic-Functional Analysis of a Fragment of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

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Title Protofeminist Criticism of Women’s Role in the Victorian Period: A Systemic-Functional Analysis of a Fragment of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
 
Creator Rivas-Carmona, María del Mar
 
Description Many Victorian novels written by women are presented from the point of view of a single narrating voice, that of the protagonist of the story in the way of autobiography. On many occasions, the events described in the story faithfully reflect the women authors’ lives. When this occurs, it is not easy to distinguish whether the addresser of the message is the author herself or the protagonist character, because there is a frequent conflation of both in these literary works.Women writers used their novels as a tool to criticize the injustices of their society, such as sexual inequality, lack of education, poverty, etc., especially at a time when women were relegated to the private sphere of the home. The authors tried to portray their restricted reality with a subtle veiled criticism.The aim of this paper is to show how a traditional systemic-functional method of linguistic analysis is able to unveil hidden or implicit messages between the lines of a Victorian proto-feminist literary text, namely Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.The systemic-functional analysis of the text under focus will reveal that the author employs different grammatical resources with a strong meaning potential in order to convey subtle feminist vindications.   
 
Publisher Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
 
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Date 2017-01-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/142
10.15520/jassh212142
 
Source Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 2, No 12 (2016)
2395-6542
10.15520/jassh212
 
Language eng
 
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