"His Life Did Harm to Others": Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Gender in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

dc.contributor.advisor	Louttit, C.J.J.
dc.contributor.advisor	Wilbers, U.M.
dc.contributor.author	Kalsbeek, L.J.
dc.date.issued	2016-08-15
dc.description.abstract	This project looks at the portrayal of abuse and domestic violence in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). In the 1840s the ideal of domesticity was at its height, but questions were also being raised on how safe the domestic home was for women, while at the same time having to be a place of refuge for husbands who were in a position of power and ownership over their wives. Through historical gender ideals and ideals of domesticity as well as through the analysis of literary devices and genres, this project sets out to show how Emily and Anne Brontë created novels reflecting the issues of domestic abuse and domesticity by showing critique on how the law and society allowed relationships between husbands and wives to be unequal and abusive.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3631
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.thesis.faculty	Faculteit der Letteren	en_US
dc.thesis.specialisation	Engelse taal en cultuur	en_US
dc.thesis.studyprogramme	Bachelor Engelse taal en cultuur	en_US
dc.thesis.type	Bachelor	en_US
dc.title	"His Life Did Harm to Others": Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Gender in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	en_US

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