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Contextualising Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey: Religion and Social Reform,…
Contextualising Anne Brontë’s
Agnes Grey
:
Religion and Social Reform
Chapter One: Anne Brontë: A reappraisal
Part I: Literature Review of Previous Criticism:
1- Reception of Anne Brontë’s Work at the Time of Publication:
2- Neglecting Anne Brontë’s Work and Widespread Misconceptions:
3- Works about Anne Brontë Perpetuating the Belittling Perception: First Half of the 20th Century until the 1970s:
4- Wave of Reassessment and Reappraisal:
Part II: Sisterly Relations (Questions of Collaboration, Influence and Individuality):
1- Anne and Charlotte: Charlotte Brontë’s Role in Setting the Stage for the Perception of Anne’s work:
2- Anne and Emily: Twins, Gondal, Anne’s Independence:
3- Anne’s Criticism of her Sisters’ Works:
4- Anne’s
Agnes Grey
’s Influence on Charlotte’s
Jane Eyre
:
Part III: Literary Achievement:
1- The Misconception that Anne Simply Replicated her Life in Fiction:
2- Anne’s Individuality, Sense of Independence and Unique Identity:
Contextualising Anne Brontë’s
Agnes Grey
:
Religion and Social Reform
Chapter Two: Anne Brontë’s religious convictions in
Agnes Grey
Part I - Anne Brontë’s Religious Development Journey
3- Religion and spirituality in Anne Brontë’s Works
thesis statement
:
Anne presents her religious convictions in her writing as a result of being the product of her context AND HER INTERACTION WITH IT.
The central question to be answered: How is the influence of the context reflected in her writing?
= generally, it is reflected in the fact of the centrality of religion in her writing as a product of the culture in which she lived. More specifically in certain aspects in which the influence of the context is apparent in the text.
body of the essay
Part one: topic sentence: the influence of the context is reflected generally in the fact of the centrality of religion in her writing as a product of the culture in which she lived. evidence for Anne Brontë’s knowledge of the chief religious issues of her day
Part two: topic sentence: the influence of the context is reflected More specifically in certain aspects in which the influence of the context is apparent in the text.
1- Religion at the Time (Denominations, the Theological landscape)
2- Anne Brontë’s Spiritual Development
Part II - Depiction of religion in
Agnes Grey
1- The spiritual development of Agnes Grey
■ 3- Role of Agnes’s religious convictions in building her relation with and conduct towards others around her, Agnes’s religious convictions as governess
■ 1- How Anne conveys her beliefs through Agnes
■ 2- The role of the spiritual part of Agnes’s journey, Divine love in Agnes’s life.
■ 3- The Role of Religion in the Upbringing of Children
2- The Clergymen in
Agnes Grey
Chapter Three: Anne Brontë’s Social Criticism in
Agnes Grey
Class dynamics: the Plight of the Governess
Education
Issues in the Domestic Sphere