Reframing the Luddites: Materialist and Idealist Models of Self in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley

Pionke, Albert D.

doi:10.1353/vcr.2004.0015

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2004

DOI: 10.1353/vcr.2004.0015

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Reframing the Luddites: Materialist and Idealist Models of Self in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley

Albert D. Pionke¹

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“…For Albert D. Pionke, the 'self-conscious task of translation effectively distances reasonable readers from the content as well as the form of the Luddite's message'. 26 The narrator's decision to decode the note places him on the side of so-called 'reasonable' readers who speak 'legible English'. This possible preference is highlighted later in the novel when one of the supposed ringleaders of the framebreakers, Noah o' Tim's, demands Moore to '"hear reason, and should you refuse, it is my duty to warn you [ … ] that measures will be had resort to (he meant recourse)"' (S, p. 150).…”

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‘Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!’: Translating Violence and ‘Yorkshire Roughness’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

Franklin¹

2018

Brontë Studies

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By taking Yorkshire Luddism as Shirley's (1849) framework, Charlotte Bront€ e places political violence at the centre of its narrative. Despite this, much of the novel's inclusions of violence are largely undescribed and even unwitnessed, often displaced to another site, such as a letter or nameless voice. When politically motivated attacks committed by working-class characters are represented, these moments are mediated by an uppermiddle-class spectator or translator. This paper seeks to identify and explore the presence and significance of politically motivated violence in the novel, emphasizing its centrality within the text and highlighting its connection with nineteenth-century attitudes to issues of regional dialect, the legitimacy of force and 'Yorkshire roughness'.

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‘Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!’: Translating Violence and ‘Yorkshire Roughness’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

Franklin¹

2018

Brontë Studies

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Mooring Points: Manly Leaders, Trade, and Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

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The Ideological Discourse of Charlotte Brontë in 'Shirley'

Martínez

2020

Complut. j. Engl. stud.

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This paper analyses the linguistic changes arising from the formation of workers’ culture during the Industrial Revolution, as well as the effects of the pastoral work of the Anglican church, and its reflection on the Victorian literature produced by Charlotte Brontë. Specifically, this analysis is based on the parallelism established by this novelist between the values that lie behind the concepts of unionism and solidarity and her fight against the social conventions concerning marriage, as reflected in the novel Shirley. In fact, the human values that derive from these concepts were an inspiration that Brontë uses to provide cohesion and coherence to the plot of the novel within a narrative framework in which she minimizes the class difference between two young women: Caroline and Shirley. Brontë thereby shows that this class difference is not an obstacle for both women to share and feel the positive effects of these values within a social context dominated by social conventions regarding marriage. Key Words: democracy, culture, Luddites, unionism and solidarity.

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Reframing the Luddites: Materialist and Idealist Models of Self in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

‘Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!’: Translating Violence and ‘Yorkshire Roughness’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

‘Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!’: Translating Violence and ‘Yorkshire Roughness’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

Mooring Points: Manly Leaders, Trade, and Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

The Ideological Discourse of Charlotte Brontë in 'Shirley'

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