英文摘要 |
The restless spirit manifests itself bravely and brilliantly on the heathery Moors surrounding the legendary household of letters that English literary history is known to witness. This research attempts to investigate the subjective interpellation embodied in the undefeatable literary enterprise of two Brontëan figures: Patrick Brontë and Charlotte Brontë. The former made it possible to shake the Irish dust from his feet and was admitted to the University of Cambridge as a sizar at the age of 25 from his poor peasant family of ten children in Northern Ireland. The latter, following and furthering the footsteps of her father, mustered her courage to write her aunt an urgent letter of private financing, a letter that did not bewail actual miserable poverty of its addresser but rather launch a sea-changing odyssey that metamorphosed all three Brontëan sisters into “women of lettres,” in lieu of genuine Victorian “angels in the house.” As Patrick Brontë’s journey to England from Ireland brought him to settle down at the Haworth Parsonage in West Yorkshire, so did Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s voyage to Brussels guide them step by step onto the world stage of literature. It is through textual, historical, and biographical inter-illumination that this study endeavors to examine the literary calling of the Brontës vis-à-vis the interpellation of Victorian ideology so as to cast light on the Brontëan outlandish geniuses yearning on the moorish wilderness. |