agnes grey ein roman von acton bell anne brontë

'Agnes Grey' is one of the classics of 19th century English literature and one of the few representatives of the subgenre of the Victorian Governess novel and at the same time a so-called Bildungsroman. On the one hand, due to their origin and education, they belonged to the bourgeoisie, but on the other hand, they were forced to work in other households. Like the novel 'Jane Eyre' of her sister Charlotte, the book deals primarily with the difficult social situation of the governesses. The book tells about the activities and experiences of the protagonist Agnes Grey as governess in various well-situate households of Victorian England.īased on literary scientific knowledge, it is assumed that the story is based essentially on the author’s own experience as a governess. The book appeared in the English original in December 1847, but was originally published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. 'Agnes Grey' is the first novel by the British writer Anne Brontë (1820-1849), the youngest sister of the well-known writers Charlotte and Emily Brontë as well as the painter and poet Patrick Branwell Brontë. And also as Agnes meets the young Edward Weston and develops feelings for him, she does not seem to be on the lucky side of life… But the children as well as the adults of the well-situate house, with whom Agnes gets to do, make it difficult for her to handle her new situation.

Thereupon the younger, quite spoiled daughter Agnes decides to work as a governess to support the family. Juxtaposing interpretations of Jane Eyre that seek to support specific theories with readings that highlight the text’s penchant for ambiguous colonial tropes, diaologicity, and nuanced gender concepts, the chapter seeks to suggest that Brontë’s text engages in a complex process of both expressing and destabilising ideologies, thereby preventing any single-minded reading and enriching our understanding of the open quality of the work.In the north of England in the Victorian era, a pastor’s family is experiencing financial hardship. This chapter revisits Jane Eyre (1847) in the light of key concepts of Victorian culture, the traditions of the Bildungsroman, the autobiography, and the Gothic, as well as feminism, psychoanalysis, and Bakhtinian aesthetics, and shows that while on the one hand the novel represents the typically Victorian attempt to synthesise the individual’s freedom with social integration, on the other hand Brontë’s most noted piece of writing bristles with internal contradictions and ideological ambiguities, which create ruptures not only in the contemporaneous system of beliefs but also in the variety of theoretical frames that were later applied to the text.

Agnes grey ein roman von acton bell anne brontë