Conventionality Flashcards

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Terry Eagleton on transcendence over conventionality

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‘The inner world must yield of necessity to the practical virtues of caution, [to satisfy] restrictive convention and lead ultimately to a fulfilling transcendence of it’

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Eagleton on the bourgeois ethic of Jane Eyre

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She ‘preserve[s] the social and moral conventions intact, and so preserve[s] intact the submissive, enduring everyday self which adheres to them’

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in the peace to its second edition, Bronte stated that:

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‘conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion’

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Gilbert and Gubar

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“‘principle and law” in the abstract do not always coincide with the deepest principles and laws of her own being’

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‘he is not of your order, keep to your ____’

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caste

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‘I feel akin to him…

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though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him’

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‘I saw he was going to marry her, for family, for perhaps political reasons____

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because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love’

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‘gentleman in his station…

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are not accustomed to marry their governesses’

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‘I will myself…

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put the dimon chain around your neck’

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‘for the world’s judgment -

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I wash my hands whereof. For man’s opinion, I defy it’

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‘my bride is here…

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because my equal is here, and my likeness’

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Aparna Srivastava

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‘though Jane cannot but love Rochester, she too has to acquire economic independence… he too has to change’

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Cora Kaplan

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‘Bertha must be killed off, ultimately in the narrative, so that a moral, Protestant femininity, licensed sexuality and a quallified socialised femininity may survive’

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Sally Minogue

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‘her own mental power disturbs and threatens the familial and social conventions within which she lives’

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