Networked Manufacture in Charlotte Brontë's &lt;em&gt;Shirley&lt;/em&gt;

Capuano, Peter J.

doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.55.2.231

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“…As Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin mention, examples include texts by Jane Austen and Mary Lamb (2020,8). They can also be found in novels by Victorian writers, as for example Charlotte Brontë's Shirley (Capuano 2013) or Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (Daly 2008), to name but a few. 4 As noted by Will May (2020, 1), artistic works by different female creators have sometimes been featured as extravagant products or even as the result of mere whims, not to mention the assumptions about women's roles as only passive recipients of such artistic creations (Ágreda Pino 2020, 79).…”

Section: Materials Practices: Embroiderymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Practices as Forms of Resilience and Agency in Tracy Chevalier’s "A Single Thread"

Navarro

2021

Oceanide

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This article discusses Tracy Chevalier’s A Single Thread (2019), with an emphasis on the parallels between the writer’s interest in women’s resilient experiences, which lead to individual and community agency, and the role played in these by cultural practices such as embroidery and bell-ringing. Chevalier’s focus is on the interwar period and its closeness to totalitarianism. Based on aspects from the theory of resilience (Cyrulnik 2006; Herman 1992; Vanistendael 2003), this article explores how the uses and meanings associated with cultural practices can turn them into resources for modulating grief and mobilising such resilience and agency in women’s lives, both from an individual and a social perspective. This article also considers that an understanding of Chevalier’s oeuvre can be of help in shaping future scholarly research on this writer.

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Section: Materials Practices: Embroiderymentioning

confidence: 99%