Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature
By Susanna Millsap (MA '19), Department of English, Kansas State University Anne Brontë’s second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), ends with a marriage proposal. In this sense, it bears similarities to many Victorian tales and domestic novels in general, but the proposal itself is quite unique. After all, it’s not every day that a woman … Continue reading Proposing Change
By Anna Meyer (MA '19), Department of English, Kansas State University WHO’S THAT GIRL? When Anne Brontë’s elusive female protagonist Helen Graham moves to Wildfell Hall, she’s the talk of town. How is it that a single woman and her child have come to rent this enormous mansion? What is her ethnic background? Why did … Continue reading Analyzing Helen ‘Graham’: A Consideration of Female Independence
By Cailey McCabe (MA '20), Department of English, Kansas State University The words marriage and love often go hand in hand. When someone gets married, you assume the reason behind their marriage is love. Society will judge someone if they marry for any other reason. For example, to marry someone based on their bank account … Continue reading Victorian Marriage Motivations
Welcome to ENGL825: Economic Women, the blog site that will accompany the Spring 2019 graduate-level seminar course in the Department of English at Kansas State University. In this course, we’ll think broadly about women’s relationship to Victorian economics, industrialism, and consumer culture by reading a selection of highly influential mid-nineteenth-century novels and poems including Christina … Continue reading ENGL825: Economic Women
ENGL825: Economic Women 