De Jane Eyre à Shirley : une représentation des éléments transformée par les bouleversements sociaux ? by Élise Ouvrard

“…When she wrote Shirley, Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the Luddite riots which took place in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1812. Contrary to her preceding novel Jane Eyre (1847) in which Thornfield is a few miles away from the large manufacturing town Millcote, Shirley (1849) insists on the social changes linked to the Industrial Revolution. …”
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